A team of women will represent British architecture practice Grimshaw at this year's MIPIM, the property fair with a notorious boys' club reputation.
The firm founded by Royal Gold Medal 2019 winner Nicholas Grimshaw has revealed it will send four women to MIPIM 2019: principal architects Angela Dapper and Annelie Kvick Thompson, managing partner Kirsten Lees and business-development manager Katie Murphy.
Dapper, who joined Grimshaw in 2019, said the decision was partly fuelled by MIPIM's reputation for being an event attended mainly by men.
"MIPIM is always perceived as quite a masculine event so it seemed appropriate to celebrate Grimshaw's strong gender-equality principles with an all-female team," Dapper told Dezeen.
"The all female team is partly by design but also partly in response to sending the right people." Presidents Club scandal overshadowed MIPIM 2018
Held in Cannes every year, MIPIM is a major networking event for architects and property developers. This year's event will run from 14 to 15 March, a week after International Women's Day.
With its reputation for champagne-fuelled parties on yachts, the trade fair has gained notoriety following reports of lewd behaviour from the largely male delegations that attend.
MIPIM is an annual property trade fair held in Cannes, France. Photo by Hermann
The event came under particular scrutiny last year, following the Financial Times exposé of the behaviour of senior figures in the property industr...