We collaborated with Andalusia Institute for Women in the design of the Spanish part of the International Exhibition CONSTRUIRE EN PARIDAD. This exhibition was part of the Global Project CONSTRUYENDO FUTURO, EQUAL PROJECT financed by the European Community (Social European Fund). The other partners are the Italian group QUASCO and the French group ARVHA.

The objectives of the Exhibition CONSTRUIRE EN PARIDAD are: to sensitize  society and  women, so they both understand that in the construction of cities and inhabited spaces we need women knowledge, women active incorporation, essential to transform a society in crisis. It was done the following way:

- Showing how the spaces built by women are (WOMEN designers and WOMEN constructors).

- Showing liberal professions that have to do with the building world where women now take part. (As architects, bricklayers, plumbers, electricians,...)
and incentiving their fully incorporation to these professions.

- Showing the real “not written” history  of women and  construction within the limits of Europe.

We propose 3 emotional journeys corresponding with 3 different itineraries inside the global exhibition space:

The pioneers women architects

Woman archaeologist. Arkaion. Granada

Reales Atarazanas restoration. Sevilla.
Architect Julia Moreno

A Journey through MEMORY: Women Pioneers (5 panels)
This journey talks us about women genealogy within the European construction area. And talks us too about the history never written in ordinary books (the presence of absence), about  these women’s dreams.  Women who started from nothing, participating in vanguard movements and in a new way of understanding life, through their writings, their drawings,  their built spaces, their fortress, their boldness and their generosity.

a journey through women´s work: Women constructors (5 panels)  

It is divided in four fundamental elements and one implied element:

- air: Women who build in the air.
- EARTH: Women who build in touch with earth.
- fire: Women who build so the fire burns.
- water: Women who build so the water flows.
- The fifth element:  women CONTRIBUTION. 

A journey through INhabitated spaces: designed with "gender perspective" (5 panels)

It is divided in ONE EXPLICATIVE PANNEL and four others with pictures and project descriptions of spaces built by women architects, and another traditional or actual spaces in architecture.
What are spaces built with "gender perspective"? Recipe of "gender mainstreaming":
FLEXIBILITY / MOBILITY / SECURITY / EQUALITY

Walking through these journeys, which can be visited in different ways, with different rhythms and interests, immerse in a topological space, created by textile tulle hanging by the ceiling. So like in a ritual, we experiment unreal or magic sensations, like when we are in a forest.

Construire en paridad together with ITACA EXHIBITIONS was shown in Andalusia (Spain) from November 2003,  to May 2004. Then it went to France and Italy.

Exhibition places and dates

JAÉN
28/11/03 a 12/12/03

CÁDIZ
07/01/04 a 21/01/04

HUELVA
02/02/04 a 17/02/04

SEVILLA
24/02/04 a 09/03/04

MÁLAGA
16/03/04 a 31/03/04

CÓRDOBA
12/04/04 a 26/04/04

ALMERÍA
24/05/04 a 07/06/04

GRANADA
16/06/04 a 30/06/04

BARCELONA (Barcelona)

2005

MERIDA

2006

SEVILLA

2006

LANGREO

2006

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