THE WOMAN´S CRAFT VILLAGE

Idea by

Neady Oduor

https://issuu.com/neadyoduor/docs/issuu/s/11287302

DESSAU-ROSSLAU, Germany

Kenyan-borne Architect, designer, feminist, researcher and budding systems thinker with an MA in Architecture. I am passionate about the work that women do; organising, collaborating and creating for and within their communities. My interests include social systems theory, conversation design and the impact of design and technology upon them.

Call for ideas 2021

The woman's village is a centre of refuge for women, an advocacy centre, a social justice education centre and an woman-robot collaboration research centre.

# Social

Systemic changes

The project is an interrogation of the 4th Industrial revolution, who it includes and who has access to it.
We must question what we legitimize as technological. The same systems of legitimacy drive the systems of domination that render women-led design low skilled craft.
A systemic approach to fabrication allows for WOMAN-ROBOT collaboration. The women access the technical skills needed to further their systems of construction & craft. This gives potential for community-based research developing contextual vernacular architecture. Computation and parametric methods also learn from women led craft, creating feedback systems of learning and improving by the women & technical tools.
This is ongoing research involving learning about digital tools in XR and investigating how rural communities interact with them. By highlighting the way women build in rural Kenya there can be an intersection between computational methods of design, fabrication and the women-led craft.

The woman's village is a centre of refuge for women, an advocacy centre, a social justice education centre and an woman-robot collaboration research centre.