Shall we rebuild the site together? by "These Women Who Build"
© Women Who Build - Francesca Bonesio and Isabelle Swiderski
Since 2024, “Ces femmes qui construisent” has been documenting the techniques, tools, and innovations of women builders. More than 350 of them responded to the call for submissions launched as part of FAIRE Paris, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal’s accelerator for innovative projects. Carpenters, masons, and plasterers: they adapt their tools, devise more collaborative methods, and repurpose materials.
ENSA Paris-la Villette is hosting a workshop bringing together female builders and students from the school. This workshop will be followed by a public presentation as part of a roundtable discussion open to the general public.
The collective imagination continues to associate construction with physical strength, justifying the tacit exclusion of women from the building trades, where they still account for only 2% of the sector in Europe.
Francesca Bonesio and Isabelle Swiderski, leaders of the project “These women who build” , invite female builders and students from ENSA Paris-la Villette to participate in a workshop on Wednesday, November 4th, co-hosted with La Villette Étudiante and Les Causeur.euses , a collective of young graduates from ENSA Paris-La Villette, founded in 2023, which opens the debate on the political, social and ecological issues of architecture.
Those who build and those who design will work together to envision the construction site of tomorrow: attractive, joyful, innovative, and inclusive. Not a utopian construction site, but a concrete one, free from standards that have no reason to exist.
Program
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Co-creation workshop
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Round table discussion followed by a social gathering
Free. Registration required, limited places available for the workshop.
