Architecture LGBT+ Academic Champions Network
Alliance of academic champions working to catalyse change in architectural education.
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ACN MISSION
The Architecture LGBT+ Academic Champions Network - an alliance of academics working to improve representation and understanding of queer identity and action in architectural education.
We are looking to build a collaborative community of queer spatial practice in higher education. Our shared mission is to catalyse change within universities and schools, leveraging queerness as a lens to scrutinise and dismantle entrenched and uneven hierarchies within the education of the built environment. The ACN will together develop clear strategies for real change based on aims below:
[1] To instigate a greater sense of understanding, safety and belonging for queer educators and students operating within architecture schools and programmes, leading to improved student and staff experiences and an uptick in work addressing queerness
[2] To generate discourse centred on queer space, pedagogy, design, theory. To establish queer spatial pedagogy as a new rigorous, well supported line of research enquiry, complementing and extending a growing body of work in queer spatial studies.
[3] To challenge and engage with the PSRBs. To lead on and contribute to inclusionary innovation in the processes and considerations that form architecture programme validation and accreditation in the UK.
WHAT IS A CHAMPION?
Serve as champion for LGBT+ identifying staff and students in their school of architecture.
Champions must be:
a member of the queer community or an ally
committed to safety, equity and liberation in the teaching and learning of architectural disciplines
committed to widening the academic studies, research and applications of queer theory, queer spatial pedagogies (and more) into the school of architecture.
committed to meet with the network 3 times per year.
The ACN is chaired by Gem Barton, Architecture LGBT+ Lead Academic Advisor and founding chair of QuEAN - the global Queer Educators in Architecture Network.
CURRENT ACN MEMBERS /
Enrico Brondelli di Brondello, University of Cambridge.
Jason Wiggin, Norwich University of the Arts.
Conor Clarke, University of Westminster.
Daniel Ovalle Costal, University College London.
Kleanthis Kyriakou + Ulrike Stevens University of the Arts London.
Emily Crompton, Manchester School of Architecture.
Jane Clossick, London Metropolitab University.
Richard Dundas, University of Dundee.
Stephen Gage, University of Reading.
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Robbie Turner, Director of Inclusion and Diversity, RIBA.
Dr. Jenny Russell, Director of Education and Learning, RIBA.
John-Paul Nunes, Head of Education Projects, RIBA.
Gem Barton, Royal College of Art [chair].
Marko Jobst, Leeds Beckett University [co-chair].
Mark Cousins, The University of Edinburgh.
David Capener, Ulster University.
Prof Juliet Davis, Head of School & Neil Turnbull, Cardiff University.
Daniel Tollady, University for the Creative Arts.
Phevos Kallitsis, Associate Head School of Architecture, the University of Roehampton.
Tanya Griffiths, Falmouth University.
Dr Begüm Ulusoy, Arts University Bournemouth.
Colin Richard Stuhlfelder, University of Salford.
Ms. Dannielle ‘Jennifer’ Kerr, The University of Sheffield.
Jordan Kauffman, & Margaret Mulcahy, University of Nottingham.