ABSTRACT
Who is welcome in architecture? Whose perspectives are valued? And how are these perspectives represented in the built world? In this essay, Jos Boys, architect, researcher, and senior lecturer at The Bartlett, explores the productive side of feeling like a ‘misfit’. Not fitting in revealed the ways in which architecture excluded particular people and perspectives, and led her to co-found the influential feminist architecture collective Matrix. Boys continues to advocate for underrepresented groups, through projects such as DisOrdinary Architecture, which shows how starting from disability can be a powerful creative force for the design of the built environment.
