Barbican celebrates Matrix feminist design group in How We Live Now exhibition
The pioneering work of 1980s group the Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative is the subject of How We Live Now, an exhibition at The Barbican that looks at the biases in architecture and the built environment.
Active in London from 1981 to 1994, Matrix were a non-hierarchical collective of female architects, designers, builders and activists who empowered marginalised communities to participate in the creation of spaces.
How We Live Now is a free exhibition at The Barbican
Their work saw them collaborate with Black and Asian women's organisations, childcare providers, and lesbian and gay housing co-operatives to build several projects in the UK, while also publishing manuals and running educational outreach.
Renewed recognition of Matrix's work came last year, when Part W chose the group as its 1985 winner in The Alternative List, which addressed the male dominance of the RIBA awards year by year. It celebrates the London-based '80s feminist cooperative called Matrix
In the months after, Matrix founding member Jos Boys, an academic at The Bartlett architecture school, received seed funding to build the Matrix Open feminist architecture archive, and Barbican assistant curator and Dezeen contributor Jon Astbury set out to create an exhibition based on the group's work.
The two ended up co-curating How We Live Now, which is subtitled "Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative". The free exhibition will run in The Barbican's ground-level foyer until 23...
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