Last month, nearly 500 architects and design enthusiasts, from across five continents, came together in Mumbai, India, for the Women in Design 2020+ International Conference. I was fortunate to be among them. Over the course of three days, three dozen speakers—including the architects Annabelle Selldorf, Billie Tsien, and Meejin Yoon from the United States—presented their work and shared experiences and insights about design, community, culture, history, and much more. Besides architects and urbanists, we heard from artists, and even a filmmaker, Vibha Bakshi, whose award-winning documentary Son Rise, about misogyny and the quest for justice for rape in patriarchal rural India, moved many in the audience to tears.
The conference, organized by the Mumbai architect Brinda Somaya, was the sequel to the first Women in Design event she initiated, in 2000. “Much has changed,” she said in her opening remarks, “but much has not.”
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