ABSTRACT
Anthropology and the social sciences advocate ideals of scholarly engagement and knowledge as public value, as part of a broader drive to reaffirm the public nature of the university and scholarship. Interrelated shifts in the production and circulation of research now further the realisation of these aspirations. This chapter examines the public space of on-line media as a new site for architectural knowledge production. In this space scholars, journalists, and community co-produce knowledge. Communities of architectural practitioners become active participants and producers rather than the subjects of academic investigation. The promises, possibilities and pitfalls of the on-line environment as a site for current feminist and equity struggles are explored through an analysis of the digital operations of Parlour, an online platform and advocacy organisation for women in architecture. This chapter probes the online environment as a site where knowledge can be formed as well as collected, organised, analysed and distributed.
