In the middle of the packed schedule at the 2018 AIA Conference on Architecture, just around lunchtime on Friday, a flash mob emerged on the sidewalk outside New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The crowd was led by a group calling themselves Voices of Plurality, represented by A.L. Hu; Julia Murphy, AIA; Caroline James; Pascale Sablan, AIA; Rosa Sheng, FAIA; Roberta Washington, FAIA; and Beverly Willis, FAIA.
Armed with handheld paper fans, a symbol of the movement, they outlined their concerns in a manifesto read by James, the event’s emcee: “Clearly, architecture has a recognition and inclusion crisis. Fortunately, we have a power team.” After the organizers addressed the crowd from a small platform, chants of “this is what feminism looks like” emerged from the group that had gathered.
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