RebelTeam

Activist Architects giving visibility to extraordinary women architects' work

Francesca Perani

Founder & Curator

*creative director / strategy / international partnership* architect / art director/ illustrator at Francesca Perani Enterprise

Caterina Pilar Palumbo

Editor / Social Media

*social media manager / editor / photographer* architect / photographer at THE CATERPILAR

Elena Fabrizi

Curator

*managing editor / italian women architects* architect / designer

Domenica Bona

Curator / IT

*editor / international women architects & press / IT strategy* PhD architect / lecturer / researcher / curator

Anna Serafini

Curator / Universities

*Italian universities / institutions / managing editor * PhD research architect

Cinzia Bigoni

timefor50 / architetta professional stamp

*italian architectural associations* experienced architect in public administration

Marzia Bergo

Editor / public institutions

*international universities / institutions* architect

Tatiana Vinciguerra

Editor

*italian women architects editor* architect

Contributors and members of RebelArchitette "early season" without whom nothing would have been possible!

Ilenia Perlotti* interior designer in charge of Book Graphic Design and group coordination / Claudia Manenti * Architect and Visual artist – Book Editor / Giulia Baroni * architecture Student – Editor/ Silvia Carrara * architecture Student – Editor / Martina Colombari * architecture Student – Editor/ *Mary Kaldani architect – Editor / *Martina Ottaviano architect – Editor / Giusy Paterno architect – Editor / *Michela Ceccotti graphic designer assistant / Giovanna Bosis – translator – Book Proof reader / Marta Brambilla architect – writer – Public Relations

Michela Ceccotti / Chiara Birolini / Sara Pacati / Maddalena Balduzzi

WE RAISE AWARENESS OF THE NEED FOR EQUALITY IN THE ARCHITECTURE FIELD
> DEMANDING AND OFFERING A DIVERSE ROLE MODEL SCENARIO
> PROMOTING THE APPLICATION OF GENDERED LANGUAGE

REBELARCHITETTE - CREATIVE DIGITAL ACTIVISTS

A collective, open project raising awareness and promoting research and information around the recognition of the role of women architects – still too far from the spotlight – at the national and international levels.

The ultimate aim of this project is to promote a heterogeneous and fair professional landscape where Women architects become reference figures for the new generations. By offering role models of excellence in the world of architecture to young female and male students, as well as juries, academics, organizers of exhibitions, and journalists, we want to guarantee a more inclusive and equal view of the profession.

2018 VENICE BIENNALE ARCHITECTURE

Architette=Women architects Here we are! was initially intended as a non-profit editorial project, an online book to be published coinciding with the opening of the Venice Biennale 2018, to promote 365 role models of excellence of women architects from all over the world presented on an open-source platform.

2017 ARCHITETTA PROFESSIONAL STAMP

With members from Italy, Europe, and Canada, the RebelTeam was established in Bergamo, Italy, in May 2017.

Everything started discussing the intense national debate grown after the approval of the professional stamp in the feminine declination Architetta (meaning Woman Architect – in Italy, until then the official mark was only available in the masculine architetto).

Up to 2019, only 5 of the 106 Italian architect associations have allowed the use of the professional stamp in the feminine. They are Naples, Rome, Lecce, Turin, and Bergamo.

The group identified 3 main goals:

DISSEMINATE female role models of excellence

nationally and internationally, through the self-published book “ARCHITETTE = WOMEN ARCHITECTS Here we are!” and the facebook platform Architette.

RAISE AWARNESS of the need for equal gender participation

in the architecture field, through the international campaign and report #timefor50 #timeforequality (in all professions), addressed to all those involved in the organization of events and the promotion of architecture: professional associations, private organizers, jury organizers, journalists, etc.

The REPORT #timefor50 investigates the unbalanced presence of female speakers in 411 events organized in Italy between 2017 and 2018, and it is freely available online.

The statistics are bleak: over the 411 events average 26% female speakers against 74% male speakers.

37% of events have been all-male based. #manels

DIFFUSE the importance of the application of gendered language

in the profession normalizing the use of the professional title Architetta and the dedicated professional stamp in the feminine form.

We strongly encourage a declared commitment to networking and mutual support between Italian and international professionals through the creation of specific online and offline events and mentoring activities.

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RebelAdvisors

International advisors support our curatorial work with their expertise in their own geographical areas – to make sure outstanding professionals will not be left invisible.

Students, curators, researchers, universities, journalists, architecture amateurs are heartily invited to keep joining us in the making of this incredible geo-located directory!

Ana Gilmet

SWEDEN

architecture student – Lund University / FEMARK Chairman (Feministiska Arkitektstudenter Lund) from Sweden

Ana Luísa Figueiredo

BRAZIL

professora de Arquitetura e Urbanismo at UniDoctum / Teófilo Otoni from Minas Gerais/Brazil

Andreia Garcia

PORTUGAL

architect / curator / professor from Porto/Portugal

Brinda Somaya

INDIA

architect and urban conservationist | principal architect Somaya & Kalappa Co. | founder Trustee – The HECAR Foundation | Chairperson – Women In Design 2020+ / A.D White professor-at-large, Cornell University | Chairperson, Board of Governors, School of Planning and […]

Caterina Franchini

ITALY

architect / initiator of MoMoWo / curator / editor / historian of architecture, construction and design from Turin/Italy

Catherine Guyot

FRANCE

architect / town planner / founder of the French prize of women architects / ARVHA director / WIAfr chairwoman from Paris / France

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

SWITZERLAND

architect, scholar, urban designer/ co-curator of the 12th architecture biennale of São Paulo/ gender activist/ founding member of Parity Group & Parity Talks at ETH Zurich / CH

Diogo Aguiar

PORTUGAL

architect at Diogo Aguiar Studio from Porto/Portugal

Elena Bonzani

ITALY

interior decorator / international lighting company consultant

Elisa Pardini

ITALY

architect / founder of Pardini Hall architecture from Lucca/Italy

Erica Lago

SPAIN

architect / team member at Labóh and curator at World-Architects from Vicenza/Italy & Barcelona/ES

Gabriela De Matos

BRAZIL

architect / urban planner / activist / founder of Arquitetas Negras from Belo Horizonte / Brasil

Gloria Gusmaroli

ITALY

architect / social urban facilitator from Bergamo/Italy

ITALY – Igor Maglica

ITALY

author / chief editor of WEARCH from Milan/Italy

Jimena Ranero

GUATEMALA

architect & designer from Guatemala

Julia Gamolina

USA

architect / founder & editorial director of MadameArchitect.org from New York City/USA

Karuni Naidoo

SOUTH AFRICA

architect at CNN Architects / activist from Durban/South Africa

Kristina Åkerlund

SWEDEN

architect from Malmo/Sweden

Lori Brown

USA

director Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion School of Architecture at Syracuse University / co-founder of ArchiteXX from New York City/USA

Lynda Simmons

NEW ZEALAND

architect / professional teaching fellow / activist from Auckland/New Zealand & Aotearoa

Mary Kaldani

CANADA

architect from Montreal/Canada & Greece

Milena Zindovic

SERBIA

architect / activist / founder of the Society of Women Architects from Belgrade/Serbia

Milota Sidorova

CZECH REPUBLIC

planner / moderator / analyst / facilitator / networker / feminist / head of Participatory Planning Office, Metropolitan Institute of Bratislava / co-founder & director of WPS Prague from Prague/ Czech Republic

Natalia Patlán

MEXICO

bachelor architecture student at UNAM from Mexico City/Mexico

Pablo Rosenberg

BRAZIL

architect / partner of AR arquitetos from Sao Paolo / Brazil

Patricia Pedrosa

PORTUGAL

architect / feminist / researcher / activist / teacher / mother / co-founder Mulheres na Arquitectura Lisbona/Portugal

Patti Anahory

CAPE VERDE

architect / designer working from and for the African world/s from Praia, Cabo Verde/ West Africa

Pegah Rezaiee

IRAN

p&b ceo / researcher and architect / Iranian women architects consultant from Iran

Pola Mora

CHILE

architect and master in cultural management / expert in architecture journalism and digital content / head of community & partnerships at ArchDaily / former editor-in-chief at Plataforma Arquitectura from Chile