Hidden History

 

What an interesting subject. Historically women in most business get overlooked; it is not just in architecture.  When I have been doing my own research into the history and the ethics of architecture its amazing how many times women are not been mentioned, it is as if there’s not been any women doing architecture in the past, that doesn’t see right.

When you investigate the past its true that most things that are published are in a man’s name or women have had to put their own work under a man’s name to even be recognised. You would have thought with all the changes that has been going on in society that just because you are a woman or a different colour or you believe in something different, that people would have been educated to know that we are all human and we should all have equal rights, to be what they want to be and to be treated and counted as a person not as a category.

I love that there is a course that is doing its part to change things, I have worked in a creative industry for many years, and we still have issues like this today, we as media artists are seen as a different department and not included in or recognised for the input we have to the finished production. I was brought up being told, ‘Treat people the way you would like to be treated’ if we all thought like that then may be just maybe we might start getting there because I believe we all have the right to be acknowledged for who we are and what we do no matter what.