Talk

Women's Stories

Design, domestic spaces, and impossible worlds

October 31 2025, 6.00pm

Free admission upon registration

Starting from their books, five women converse with journalist Laura Ragazzola and discuss their commitment to obtaining "a room of their own." These stories speak of women of today and yesterday, of their lives and their work; they speak of female identity and differences, of redemption and resilience. They reveal the importance of leaving a mark on the world with one's ideas and thoughts, to prevent—as Ida Farè wrote in a beautiful book on women designers (1991)—"the female presence from revealing itself only through difference, resistance, fragments..."

Speakers

Laura Ragazzola, architect and journalist, and curated of the talk
Gisella Borioli Lucchini, journalist, writer, and entrepreneur, author of the book "Design Super Show" (Superstudio Group edition);
Michela Bassanelli, architect and professor, editor of the book " Gli spazi delle donne. Casa, lavoro, società" (Humanities) with Imma Forino; and Carola D'Ambros, architect and professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan and author of one of the book's essays;
Gisella Bassanini, architect, researcher, and essayist, author of the book "Charlotte Perriand" (marinonibooks) with Giovanna Canzi and Emi Ligabue;
Valeria Palumbo, journalist and women's historian, editor of the introduction to the book "Man's Rights; or How Would I Like It" by activist Annie Denton Cridge (Argolibri).

Reading
Rita Russo, actress and collaborator of the Teatro Oscar DanzaTeatro in Milan

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Credits

Part of: Milano Arch Week 2025
Curated by: Laura Ragazzola, architect and journalist

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