[1][2] She was a founder member of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative and co-author of their 1984 book Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment (Pluto Press 1984/Verso 2022).
[1] Before that, she worked for over 10 years as an independent Learning Environment consultant and researcher; and has written extensively about the complex and often contested inter-relationships between pedagogies, academic development, institutional policy and strategies, facilities planning and management, and building design.
Underpinning this, as well as all her community-based design activism,[29] is a particular interest in how to improve our understanding of everyday social, material and spatial practices, in support of the most disadvantaged in society.
[41] The archive has been accessed and displayed in national and international exhibitions including Found Cities Lost Objects (a touring Arts Council England show, co-curated with Lubaina Himid,)[42] in the Chronos: health, access and intimacy exhibition at Tensta Konsthalle Stockholm,[43] Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, University of Melbourne,[44] Oslo Architectural Biennale,[45] ETHL Lausanne, ETH Zurich, MAXXI and Newcastle University UK.
[12][3] Boys' co-edited collections all aim to open up multiple perspectives and voices, so as to share approaches and attitudes; to critically reflect on different assumptions; and to work together to build better models for architecture as a discipline that based on social, spatial and material justice.