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Exploring gender-sensitive design

Twelve years ago, Hélène Frichot and Nicole Kalms reflected on the often uneasy “coupling of architecture and feminism” and the need for more gender awareness in the built environment in an essay for Architecture Australia (March/April 2008). They noted a flurry of events that undeniably highlighted how “women’s issues,” including representation, were still knocking at the various doors of the creative and built environment sectors. Fast forward a decade and

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