Jos Boys: Activism, architecture and disordinary bodies.

In episode 11 of A is for Architecture’s second season, I speak with architect, scholar, teacher and activist, Dr. Jos Boys, about her long term project, The DisOrdinary Architecture Project. Jos was a founding member of the ground-breaking feminist architecture practice, Matrix, a ‘radical, […] women-led platform […] integrating new interdisciplinary and intersectional ways of working across theory and practice’, and whose work was recently featured in a retrospective exhibition – How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative - at the Barbican. Jos has also written widely on her approach to space, design and research, including Doing Disability Differently: An Alternative Handbook on Architecture, Dis/Ability and Designing for Everyday Life (2014) and as editor, Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (2017), both published by Routledge. The Handy Guide: The DisOrdinary Architecture Project infographic sheet can be downloaded here, and is on Issuu here. You can hear Jos speak on some of the ideas we cover here at the Arizona State University - DisOrdinary Architecture: A Virtual Lecture by Dr. Jos Boys; at the Architectural Association- Doing Dis/ability and Architecture Differently?; and for A+DS, where Jos gave the Andy MacMillan Lecture 2021 - The DisOrdinary Architecture Project. There is much else online, so have a good look. I met Jos through Kathy Li at the Glasgow School of Art, when after Fire 1, and teaching out of a rather dour spec office on Sauchiehall Street, Jos came up and gave us all a dose of hope. She’s really quite wonderful, so have a listen, do. Happy listening! + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Music credits: Bruno Gillick + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + aisforarchitecture.org Apple: podcasts.apple.com Spotify: open.spotify.com Google: podcasts.google.com Amazon: music.amazon.co.uk