ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes some of the learning from a material practice that sits in a sisterly manner next to architecture. It examines how mainstream understanding of time and technology limit the engagement of those people in society who do not fit given norms. The chapter argues that when we examine such concepts in more detail and expand them to reflect diverse experiences those very same concepts offer new potentials and innovative openings for the progression of disciplines such as architecture. Parlour, the Australian project on women, equity and architecture, published guides in 2015 aimed at improving the architecture profession for women. Across history, conceptual and stylistic shifts in architecture have paralleled technological advancements. Such technology-led architecture often has strong visual impact, but the experience of the resultant spaces can be alienating. Rather, it’s the given concepts – in this instance, technology and time – that have been historically framed to best fit what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson calls, the ‘normate’.
