Women designers and feminist cities: it’s not what you think

Dismantling ideas don't need to dismantle a city.

This week, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) launched its inaugural MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission with Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, whose designs place social and gender equity at its centre. 

Simultaneously in WA, HyperSext City lands at Fremantle Design Week, and looks at the problems that women, gender diverse people and the LGBTQIA+ community face in navigating public space. 

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_