Leadership
Taking the lead. What does it take to get more women leaders and what might they offer? What kinds of leadership styles can help improve equity and diversity?
Listening and Learning – How it works
Monica Edwards summarises the process, objectives and outcomes of the Listening and Learning sessions, developed by the Champions of Change Coalition.
Listening, learning and leading
Listening and Learning is fundamental to the Champions of Change Coalition approach. Monica Edwards outlines the four-step process, describing it in relation to design processes.
Building consensus
As the Head of Architecture at Monash, Naomi Stead aims for an affiliative leadership style that helps make space for others and works by building consensus rather than exerting control.
Leading Change
Parlour's Leading Change series profiles a variety of different women in leadership positions.
The need for risk-taking
Being experimental, taking risks and potentially failing is somewhat difficult but a necessary challenge that we face in education today, says SueAnne Ware.
Women Leading Change at the NGV
In early 2018, four of the five women leading Victorian architecture schools participated in a public discussion with Parlour on leadership. It was a fascinating discussion.
Leading Change
How might architectural culture be enriched if marginalised perspectives were offered more seats at the table? Pia Ednie-Brown looks at the issues.
Re-addressing the gender gap
When it comes to pay, seniority and career progress, architecture’s gender gap is concerning, but how do we close the gap? Kathlyn Loseby examines the issues.
Gender, emotion and bias
After 'an evening with Hillary', Andrew Pettifer takes an honest look at his emotional responses to gender – and asks others to do the same.
The importance of claiming recognition
Ignore self doubt and apply for Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Architects! Melonie Bayl-Smith leads by example.
The bamboo ceiling
It can be hard to aspire to leadership when you can’t identify with anyone at the top. But that might just be changing, says Fiona Young.
NCGE essay 1: Leadership
Women make great leaders, but a seat at the top table is often elusive. Emma Williamson explores the obstacles women face on the road to the top.
Be a good fellow!
The only way to redress the serious imbalance among the Institute Fellowship is for eligible women to put their hand up. Vanessa Bird outlines the latest gender equity initiatives of the Institute and calls for women to self-nominate.
Champions of Change – the charter
The first Champions of Change in architecture have now signed the charter. Congratulations to the Gender Equity Taskforce on establishing the program, and to the first signatories on stepping up to the challenge.
get: GOING – Male Champions of Change
Its time to fix the men – Andrew Nimmo reports on the launch of the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects Male Champions of Change program.
