Ignored Technology

This project challenges the patriarchal bias that separates "technology" (valued, prestigious) from "craft" (domestic, ignored). We ask: what if the skills historically attributed to women and other marginalized groups had been given the attention they deserve? We intend to uncover a lost narrative of technology together, one where the first tool was a carrier bag, not a weapon, and where collaboration trumped hierarchy. The evidence was always there. It was just ignored.

Housed within the Platform for Construction Materials and Technology (CMT) at AKBILD's Institute for Art and Architecture, the project is led by Michelle Howard and Adam Hudec. The partner teams are led by Klára Peloušková and Veronika Miškovičová at UMPRUM, and Danica Pišteková and Tomáš Tholt at AFAD.

This unique partnership brings together three neighbouring European academies where architectural education is uniquely embedded within a fine arts context, fostering a critical and creative approach to technology.