Naomi Stead - Gender Gap

Our guest in this episode is an architectural academic, critic, and advocate Naomi Stead. At the time of recording, Naomi was the Director of the Design and Creative  Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT in Melbourne. Naomi was also a founding member of Parlour, one of the most successful research-led community groups that focus on the active exchange on women, equity, and architecture in Australia. Naomi shares the origins of Parlour, mental wellbeing in the architecture profession, the issues facing architecture education and making sure architecture graduates are prepared for practice. This interview is conducted by Kimberley Hui who is an EmAGN representative based in Victoria.