Home, Mosque and Street: Muslim
women and urban design
1.30-5.30 24th June 2009
This half-day seminar focused on Muslim women and their experiences of the built environment, particularly in London. Exploring religious, domestic and ‘public’ spaces, the seminar addressed the ways in which Islamic design principles affect the everyday lives of Muslim women. It also considered 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.
Afternoon programme:
1:30 Registration – Tea/coffee
1:45 Welcome – Alison Blunt – QMUL Geography and LWPF Steering Group
2:00 Samar Damluji - Architect
2:30 Barbra Wallace – Director of Women’s Design Service
3:00 Break
3:15 Barbara Disney – Tower Hamlets Borough Council – Sonali Gardens scheme, care for Bangladeshi older people.
3:45 Imogen Wallace – QMUL Geography
4:15 Discussant - Claire Dwyer, UCL
4:30 Discussion
5:30 Drinks reception