Dear all
the next London Women and Planning Forum seminar is on 'Home, Mosque and
Street: Muslim women and urban design,' and will take place at Queen
Mary, University of London, on Wednesday 24 June from 1.30 to 5.30.
Please email Felicity Paynter ([log in to unmask]) to reserve a place
(£25; £10 reduced rate); and please forward to anyone else who might be
interested.
many thanks
with best wishes
Alison
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HOME, MOSQUE AND STREET:
MUSLIM WOMEN AND URBAN DESIGN
London Women and Planning Forum Seminar
Wednesday 24 June 2009
1.30 - 5.30
Queen Mary, University of London
This half-day seminar focuses on Muslim women and their experiences of
the built environment, particularly in London. Exploring religious,
domestic and 'public' spaces, the seminar will address the ways in which
Islamic design principles affect the everyday lives of Muslim women. It
will also consider how planners, architects and urban designers can meet
the needs of Muslim women from different communities and backgrounds and
discuss how Muslim women working in these fields envisage urban change.
1.30 - registration; tea/coffee
1.45 - welcome: Alison Blunt, QMUL and LWPF
2.00 - Salmar Samar Damluji - architect and writer on Islamic design and
mudbrick architecture in the Yemen
Samar will discuss the organisation of space under Islamic design
principles, with specific reference to the position of women and the
role of the mosque in urban space, and will explain the historical and
political reasons behind them.
2.30 - Barbra Wallace - Director, Women's Design Service
Barbra will address the Islamic notions of 'mahran' and 'na-mahran' and
their implications for Muslim women and urban design, whereby spaces are
differentiated in terms of who interacts within them rather than in
terms of 'public' and 'private.'
3.00 - break
3.15 - Barara Disney - Commissioning Manager, Older People, London
Borough of Tower Hamlets
Focusing on Sonali Gardens (an extra care sheltered housing scheme for
Asian Elders in Shadwell, which opened in 2004), Barbara will discuss
the housing needs, design and provision for older Muslim women in Tower
Hamlets.
3.45 - Imogen Wallace - Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University
of London
Drawing on her PhD research on home as a site of (in)security for Muslim
women in London and Bristol, Imogen will discuss her participants'
experiences of Islamophobia and how these experiences affect their
everyday geographies and relationships to home.
4.15 - Discussant: Claire Dwyer - Department of Geogaphy, University
College London
4.30 - Discussion
5.15 - Drinks reception
The seminar fee is £25 and £10 for concessions. Payable on the day in
cash in cheque. Please email Felicity Paynter at [log in to unmask] to
reserve a place, and see www.lwpf.org.uk for more information.
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