Zoë will be delivering an online lecture as part of the film + architecture workshop on Monday 02 October at 2pm. Whilst this is event is designed to inform the workshop participants, anyone with an interest in progressive future for architecture is welcome to join the audience in the Mick Lally Theatre for this event!

Zoë Berman is an architect, university lecturer and founder of Part W – an action group founded in 2018 that campaigns for gender equality across the built environment sector.

Part W is driven by a desire to see places and spaces designed and delivered in a manner that is fair and beneficial to all. In 2019, the group launched a campaign raising awareness of the disparity in global architecture prizes, which are disproportionately awarded to male designers. That campaign led to a key moment of change, and featured in press including The Guardian, The Observer and Dezeen. Zoë has been a guest on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and lectured extensively on design and equity, and has written for the RIBA Journal, Blueprint magazine and Architecture Today. Zoë is writing a book profiling women who are shaping the design of cities.

Part W launched their Women's Work mapping project on International Women's Day 2022, encouraging others to highlight projects individually and collectively designed, built and influenced by women. The resulting map won the won the inaugural Prize for Research in Gender and Architecture 2023. Zoë will be talking about why Part W launched this project, and why highlighting a diversity of built projects is of value for practitioners and future generations.

Zoë is director of Studio Berman, which operates as a network of designers, makers and engineers who work collaboratively on a project-by-project basis, on installations and cultural and educational projects. She advocates design as a tool to engender positive social, political and economic change.