04-29-2019
Women in Spaces: Panel Discussion
Women are now in more spaces than ever before—in physical space, representation, and public perception. As diversity increases in the art and architectural worlds, we support and celebrate the work of women in these fields, and question if this presence is enough.
FXCollaborative and A Women's Thing organized the panel discussion "Women in Spaces" with four women from related art and design fields—two-dimensional and three-dimensional, creator and promoter—to explore the rise and future of women in spaces both visual and conceptual.
Women in Spaces: Panel Discussion
Monday, April 29, 2019
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
FXCollaborative Architects
22 West 19th Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Panelists:
Morgan Everhart, Artist & Curator of "Women in Spaces"
Eileen Jeng Lynch, Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill & Founder of Neumeraki
Angie Lee, Partner & Design Director—Interiors, FXCollaborative
Anne-Brigitte Sirois, Founder of Art State
Moderator:
Yassana Croizat-Glazer, Founder of YCG Fine Art
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For a full recap of the event, check out "How Do We Increase the Presence of Women in the Arts?" on A Women's Thing. An excerpt is below:
Croizat-Glazer: We live in a world where we frequently move in physical spaces that have traditionally underscored and strengthened social inequality—such as medical facilities, mothers' rooms, bathrooms, and workplaces. What are some of the ways that you have sought to make such spaces more inclusive? Given its divisive potential, what role does art have in these environments?
Angie Lee: In my role as a design director, I provide strategic vision and creative oversight for interior environments across a wide range of scales and project types. I believe there is powerful inspiration in the stories that have silently defined us in the past, so I seek untapped sources for storytelling to expand the range of transformative design thinking. It's important to recognize, understand, and advocate for the individuality and diversity of needs and desires. As an interior designer and architect, I craft environments that celebrate the multiplicities of human experiences.
Others at FXCollaborative have further explored this as it specifically relates to bathrooms, examining common assumptions about access, inclusion, and the gendering of space. The white paper "Bathrooms for Humans" is an effort to restore dignity to the mundane but necessary tasks of everyday living by bringing bathrooms out of the stranglehold of politics, and back into the realm of public interest and design. Restructuring existing practices and building new paradigms lets us embrace new terrain for the power of good design to take hold and positively catalyze the next generation. Art can fuel and amplify the range of emotions we as designers may not capture within our purview. Color, texture, and content should live in both the art and the design of spaces and loosen the boundaries that too often serve as limitations reinforcing the status quo. I look to art often as an equalizer that sets the table for the unconventional and messy details that we must address to uncover innovation in design.
FXCollaborative and A Women's Thing organized the panel discussion "Women in Spaces" with four women from related art and design fields—two-dimensional and three-dimensional, creator and promoter—to explore the rise and future of women in spaces both visual and conceptual.
Women in Spaces: Panel Discussion
Monday, April 29, 2019
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
FXCollaborative Architects
22 West 19th Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Panelists:
Morgan Everhart, Artist & Curator of "Women in Spaces"
Eileen Jeng Lynch, Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill & Founder of Neumeraki
Angie Lee, Partner & Design Director—Interiors, FXCollaborative
Anne-Brigitte Sirois, Founder of Art State
Moderator:
Yassana Croizat-Glazer, Founder of YCG Fine Art
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For a full recap of the event, check out "How Do We Increase the Presence of Women in the Arts?" on A Women's Thing. An excerpt is below:
Croizat-Glazer: We live in a world where we frequently move in physical spaces that have traditionally underscored and strengthened social inequality—such as medical facilities, mothers' rooms, bathrooms, and workplaces. What are some of the ways that you have sought to make such spaces more inclusive? Given its divisive potential, what role does art have in these environments?
Angie Lee: In my role as a design director, I provide strategic vision and creative oversight for interior environments across a wide range of scales and project types. I believe there is powerful inspiration in the stories that have silently defined us in the past, so I seek untapped sources for storytelling to expand the range of transformative design thinking. It's important to recognize, understand, and advocate for the individuality and diversity of needs and desires. As an interior designer and architect, I craft environments that celebrate the multiplicities of human experiences.
Others at FXCollaborative have further explored this as it specifically relates to bathrooms, examining common assumptions about access, inclusion, and the gendering of space. The white paper "Bathrooms for Humans" is an effort to restore dignity to the mundane but necessary tasks of everyday living by bringing bathrooms out of the stranglehold of politics, and back into the realm of public interest and design. Restructuring existing practices and building new paradigms lets us embrace new terrain for the power of good design to take hold and positively catalyze the next generation. Art can fuel and amplify the range of emotions we as designers may not capture within our purview. Color, texture, and content should live in both the art and the design of spaces and loosen the boundaries that too often serve as limitations reinforcing the status quo. I look to art often as an equalizer that sets the table for the unconventional and messy details that we must address to uncover innovation in design.
