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Women in Design and Planning (WIDP) is a speaker series that seeks to give students an understanding of the state of gender-related issues in the design and planning professions as well as pragmatic advice on how to meet daily challenges.

2010-2011 Event:

Women in Design and Planning Panel Discussion
and Networking Lunch
This lunchtime session is meant to be informative and informal, focusing on issues such as “glass ceilings,” work-life balance and gender-related issues women may encounter in their first 5 years in the profession. This is a great networking opportunity with accomplished women leaders in design fields. Speakers TBA.
December 8, 2010, noon -1:30pm, in Meyerson Hall, B2 - Box Lunches will be served

2009 - 2010 Event:

Women in Design and Planning Panel Discussion
and Networking Lunch
Speakers include Penn alumnae, and are:
• Genevieve Coutroubis, Director of Regional Community Arts Program, CFEVA
• Carol Franklin, RLA, FASLA, Founding Principal, Andropogon Associates Ltd.
• Nancy Rogo Trainer, AIA, AICP, LEED® AP, Principal, - Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
April 14, 2010, noon to 1:15pm, in Meyerson Hall, B13

2008-2009 Events:

Women in Design and Planning
Inaugural Discussion and Reception
with Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor-
January 14, 2009, 6-7:30pm, Upper Gallery of Meyerson Hall
click here to view video of event

WIDP Panel Discussion with
Rosanne Dubé, PennDesign MSPV, Project Director, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering
Fon Wang, PennDesign MSPV, UCI Architects
Marisa Waxman, PennDesign MCRP, Director of Policy, Planning, & Outreach, City of Philadelphia
April 1, 2009, noon to 1pm, B2 of Meyerson Hall

WIDP/ Women in the Fine Arts
Discussion and Reception with
Carson Fox, Penn BFA, multi-media, www.carsonfox.com
Jill Sablosky, PennDesign MFA, sculptor, http://www.inliquid.com/artist/sablosky_jill/sablosky.php
Marjorie van Cura, PennDesign MFA, painter, www.marjorievancura.com
April 3, 2009, 4-5:30pm, White Room of the Morgan Building

Expanded programming for Spring '09 thanks to a generous grant from
the Trustees' Council of Penn Women.

2007-2008 Events:

Panel Discussion, Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Audio of Program (May speaks first)

(left to right)

May Narisaranukul, Associate Architect at Interface Studio Architects LLC
Jennifer Orr, Landscape Architect, MLArch, Landscape Designer at  WRT
Catherine Martins Betz, MFA 07, Sculptor and Lecturer at PennDesign

Panel Discussion, Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Audio of Program (Sarah speaks first)

(left to right)

Sarah Thorp, MHP 06, Executive Director of the Delaware River City Corporation
Katherine Dowdwell, Principal Architect at Blakney Hayes
Bridget Keegan, MCP 02, Senior Planner at PennPraxis

Resources

Books

The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture (New York: Watson-Guptill; Mulgrave, Australia: Images, 2001)

Jane Darke, Sue Ledwith, and Roberta Woods, eds. Women and the City: Visibility and Voice in Urban Space (New York: Palgrave, 2000)

Gail Dubrow and Jennifer Goodman, Restoring Women's History through Historic Preservation (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2003)

Louise Durning and Richard Wrigley Chichester, eds. Gender and Architecture (New York: Wiley, 2000)

Susan S. Fainstein and Lisa J. Servon, eds. Gender and Planning: A Reader (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005)

Brenda Martin and Penny Sparke, Women’s Places: Architecture and Design, 1860-1960 (London: Routledge 2003)

Vera Norwood, Made from this Earth:American Women and Nature (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1993)

Ellen Perry Berkeley and Matilda McQuaid, eds, Architecture: A Place for Women (Washington, DC:Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989)

Glenda Riley, Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999)

Alice Sparberg Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary (New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers University Press, 2006)

Exhibitions

Women in the City (2008 - Los Angeles)

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution 2007-2008 - New York; Los Angeles; Washington

Feminism and Art

That Exceptional One: Women in American Architecture, 1888-1988 (Washington, DC: American Architectural Foundation, 1988)

Women in Modernism Colloquium (2007 - New York)

Links

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

London Women and Planning Forum

Women in Design (Harvard School of Design student group)

Women's Design Service (UK)

Women's Planning Network (Australia)

Women in Preservation (National Preservation Institute)

Women in Real Estate

WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate