Professor Barbara Penner

Barbara Penner is a Professor in Architectural humanities at the BartleH School of Architecture, UCL. She is author of Bathroom (2013) and Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America (2009). She is the co-editor of Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects (2021), Sexuality and Gender at Home (2017), Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (2009), and Gender Space Architecture (Routledge, 2000). She contributed the foreword to the reissued classic Modern Housing by leading American houser (1934; republished, 2020). She is a contributing editor to the online journal Places for which she has most recently written on t.v. chef, Julia Child’s kitchens and how they inspired the Universal Design movement. Other recent essays and chapters explore the Austrian Jewish female émigré architect, Ella Briggs, the home engineer Lillian Gilbreth, and the nineteenth-century bestseller author, Fanny Fern.

Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an architectural historian at Barnard College, Columbia University, and author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press), on the spatial politics, visual rhetoric, ecologies, and long colonial traditions of the UNHCR-administered camps at Dadaab, Kenya. She is the author of Minnette De Silva: Intersections (Mack Books), and her book manuscript Ecologies of the Past: The Inhabitations and Designs of Anil and Minnette de Silva analyzes the politics of heritage environments through the work of Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva and art historian Anil de Silva-Vigier. Siddiqi is the editor of Architecture as a Form of Knowledge and co-editor of Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration and Spatial Violence.

Professor Suzie Attiwill

Dr Suzie Attiwill is Professor of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University, Australia. She has degrees in Interior Design, Art History, Indian Studies and Weaving. Research is conducted through practice and experiments with new productions of interior and interiority in relation to modes of living, inhabitation, subjectivity and pedagogy. Collaborative research projects include urban + interior an international publication; beyond building with the Australian Childhood Trauma Group; Abacus Learning Centre for children on the autism spectrum. Suzie has published widely and supervises PhD candidates as part of RMIT Practice Research Symposium in Melbourne, Barcelona and Saigon.