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PLAN TO COME Women in Design: the next decade, March 20 and 21, is the conference for women who deal with public visual and physical forms. It is planned as an open forum which will address issues not raised in traditional institutions. Panels will encourage women to challenge standards that have excluded them; presentations will examine the forms we make and their effect; and workshops will define and expand roles for women designers. The conference will avoid dependency upon any patriarchial educational or professional institution. The Woman's Building is an alternative public institution whose purpose is serving the needs of women by honoring and making known their contributions to society. It is the environment most capable of encouraging open exchange of work and attitudes among students, designers, architects, planners, historians, and critics. Registration fees will finance the cost of day care, visual media, documentation, honoraria, scholarships, etc. Attendance will be limited to 200 women so that meaningful exchange can occur. Among the participants will be: Ellen Perry Berkeley, senior editor of "Architecture Plus," Columbia University faculty. Denise Scott Brown, planner, author, partner in Venturi and Rauch. Galen Cranz, sociologist, Princeton University School of Architecture faculty. Claire Forrest, architect, USC faculty. Delores Hayden, architectural historian, author, MIT faculty. Sara Ishikawa, member of Center for Environmental Structures, UC Berkeley faculty. Etel Kramer, architect, UCLA visiting critic. Roslyn Lindheim, architect, author, UC Berkeley faculty. Jane Thompson, formerly editor-in-chief of "Industrial Design," associate in Ben Thompson Associates. Susana Torre, architect, author, State University of New York faculty. REGISTER NOW Bring slides of your work and experiences to provide an ongoing visual forum during the conference. Please return the adjacent panel of a blank drawing board with your feelings, needs and suggestions in visual and/or written form. Send your responses and your registration fee Women in Design:the next decade The Woman's Building 743 South Grandview Los Angeles, California 90057 $30 regular registration; $15 student registration. Make checks payable to the Extension Program at the Woman's Building. Your check is your receipt. The Women in Design conference is being organized by Rikki Binder, student of architecture; Sheila deBretteville, graphic designer; Elsa Leviseur-Fleischmann, landscape designer and architect; Claire Forrest, architect; Arlene Klasky, graphic designer; Jane McGroarty, student of architecture; Judith Miller, writer and industrial designer; Nancy Olexo, student of design; Deborah Sussman, graphic designer; Bobbie Wilson, architect; with the help of the members of the Women in Architecture and the Feminist Studio Workshop. WOMEN IN DESIGN: THE NEXT DECADE MARCH 20 & 21 AT THE WOMAN'S BUILDING IN LOS ANGELES The following questions reflect our concerns, and we hope they will stimulate your interest and response: Do you identify yourself with any aspects of female role? • Does your identification as a woman enrich or endanger your viability as a professional? • What relationships do you find between your processes of designing, working with colleagues and clients, the forms you make, the way you present yourself and any aspects of female role? • What tensions exist for you between personal and professional life? • What are the effects of the choice to integrate or separate them? • What has been the influences upon your design work? • In what ways are these influences and criteria evident in the way you work and the work itself? • How have these influences changed in the past few years? • How do you anticipate they will change in the future? • Do you feel that physical and visual forms have the capacity to communicate values and attitudes? • How are your values and attitudes manifest in your work and life? • How do you deal with the narrow application of affirmative hiring which rigorously maintains male standards of acceptibility? • What are your standards of acceptibility? • What are your aspirations for yourself as a worker in the next decade?
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