Yeah, they were All Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities

Nov. 2022-May 2023, Cambridge, MA

Exhibition/Pedagogy Design

In conjunction with seminar course HIS4506 by the same title, led by Ruo Jia at Harvard GSD Spring 2023

Exhibition initiated by Ruo Jia and Womxn In Design

This exhibition presents discursive and/or non-discursive inquiries around various Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities. It is primarily the medium of a group working project of the Spring 2023 elective seminar HIS 4506 “Yeah, they were all Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities” instructed by Ruo Jia at Harvard GSD. Additionally, the exhibition also connects this collective production at the GSD within a larger context in the current day architectural and social milieu, working toward more socio-eco-political just structures at the intersection between race and gender with an anchor of the specific Asian Feminist Architectural materiality. Within this approach, our effort seeks to avoid essentialism, bitterness, enclosures, and universalism that discourses over identity risk, and instead aspires to open and relate to ALL, in positive collaboration, communication, collectivity, and constant change.

Audiences are invited to participate by repositioning things and making new connections via sliding, as well as marking on the post-it, and sticking them on the relevant materials presented. These encouraged interactions will be collected and integrated into the work.

Curatorial Team:

Junainah Ahmed, Alexandra Barnes, Ruo Jia, Mai Lee, Jennifer Li, Clair Ryu, Malvin Bunata Wibowo

Exhibition Team:

Dan Borelli, Ray Coffey, Jef Czekaj, Anita Kann, Sarah Lubin, Jesus Matheus, Joanna Vouriotis, and David Zimmerman-Stuart

Exhibition Webpage:

https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/exhibition/womxn-in-design-yeah-they-were-all-yellow-asian-feminist-architectural-possibilities/

Course Webpage:

https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/course/yeah-they-were-all-yellow-asian-feminist-architectural-possibilities-spring-2023/