Women, work and architecture – analsyis, anecdote and advice about workplace. The opportunities, the constraints and how we might navigate our way through them.
Home / Work
Our Home /Work series asks the Parlour community to share experiences of the adjustment to new work arrangements, and the ongoing impact. Find out how to contribute here.
Enhancing management & leadership
What are the opportunities to improve and change leadership and management in the profession? Anwyn Hocking presents advice from the Work & Wellbeing survey.
Moving from cultural fit to cultural add
Do you recruit for ‘cultural fit’? Or is there a better way? Brian Clohessy unpacks the issues following an impromptu conversation at a Light at the End of the Tunnel session.
Enhancing workplace communication
The need for improved communication was reiterated again and again in the Work & Wellbeing survey. Anwyn Hocking identifies the themes and assembles advice.
Battling pay inequity
Compare and contrast pay rates and don’t misread confidence for competence. Cassandra Keller tells it like it is.
25 alternate jobs for young architects
Sarah Lebner explores the unconventional, alternate jobs that may provide experience, connections and industry knowledge until the economy recovers and architecture jobs return.
Financial literacy for architects
Management for Design Founding Director Gordana Milosevska takes us through the basics, from cash flow and balance sheets to profit margins and transparency.
Unsettling times
Writer Deborah Singerman has worked from home for more than a decade, but has found the restrictions of lockdown very unsettling.
Memories of past challenges
Loata Ho describes her workspace in isolation, the challenges of lockdown life, her research interest in Indigenous Fijian women’s knowledge, and her experiences after the 2008 economic downturn.
Student life in the age of COVID-19
Fifth-year University of Adelaide architecture student Georgie Warren shares the comforts and struggles of lockdown life.
The importance of ‘third spaces’
Sarah Hobday-North was already adept at working from home, but she misses the support of ‘third spaces’, such as cafes, museums and playgrounds.
Heading home
Settled back in to her family home during the COVID-19 crisis, Sarah Ackland has enjoyed many aspects of lockdown life – time with family, long runs, life drawing and reading freely.
Engagement at a local and global level
Grace Choi has found that lockdown life has opened up unexpected opportunities to engage more globally as well as to build strong connections in her local community.
Strategic planning and time to think
Working from home has given Katelin Butler more time to focus on strategic planning, and to consider the important takeaways from this critical moment in time.
Clean desks and flashbacks to corporate clients
As the world narrows, Sue Wittenoom is learning to share her work-from-home spaces and have a clean desk before dinner.
