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Hack victim: ‘Consider risk to minority groups in online events’
One of the speakers at an Architecture Foundation lecture disrupted by racist shouting has urged the profession to consider the risk to minority groups when organising online events
Diversity
Coverage of the architectural profession’s efforts to increase diversity, including insights from AJ surveys run in association with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
Deputy London mayor slams architecture’s complacency on diversity
London’s deputy mayor, Jules Pipe, has criticised architecture’s lack of improvement on diversity, telling an AJ100 audience ‘progress isn’t inevitable’
London Mayor issues ‘wake-up call’ to practices with diversity handbook
Interview: Architect and Mayor’s Design Advocate Dipa Joshi tells the AJ how the London Mayor is hoping to influence practices to become more diverse and inclusive
Diversity champion Sonia Watson awarded OBE in Queen’s birthday honours
Sonia Watson, chief executive of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, has been handed an OBE for services to diversity in architecture
How BBC’s Cardiff building considers neurodiversity in creating an inclusive workplace
Wearing a VR headset helped us make ID:SR Sheppard Robson’s new Cardiff broadcast centre consider neurological diversity, writes the BBC’s Alan Bainbridge
Architecture profession ‘lagging behind’ on diversity, says RIBA
The RIBA has said architecture is lagging behind other sectors on diversity as it outlined its new strategy to promote a more ’inclusive’ profession
HOK big-hitter replaces Elsie Owusu as chair of RIBA diversity group
HOK London principal Femi Oresanya has become the new chair of RIBA’s diversity group following the recent removal of Elsie Owusu from the role
RIBA boots out Elsie Owusu as chair of diversity group
The RIBA has removed Elsie Owusu from her role as diversity group chair following a row sparked by further allegations of racism at the institute
Watch: ‘Architecture for All’ film on diversity in education
The Architecture Foundation has produced a film focusing on the future of creative learning in the UK
Race Diversity Survey: is architecture in denial?
Twenty-five years on from Stephen Lawrence’s death, the AJ, in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, investigates attitudes to race within the profession. Richard Waite reports, with additional data analysis by Bruce Tether