The XXAOC Project

The XXAOC Project seeks to help write women of colour into architectural history - In the UK Architectural history is manifestly missing female architects of colour. Whilst the US has lots of data on this, here we have only recently been recorded data on race. As such we do not know who many of our pioneers were. Who for example was the first Black female Architect? The XXAOC project wants to learn from the US and fill in some of these blanks. Founded by Architect and Filmmaker, Sarah Akigbogun, we aim to work with other groups who share this mission to achieve this goal .

...So we started a crowdsourced, online database to record the work of these women. We're also making a film which tracks our search and tells the stories of women architects of colour.

We hope to create a site that can be an resource for anyone interested in this topic and feed into the work that others are doing in this area.

To date we've release a series of film interviews and a podcast episode of our interview with the incredible Dr Sharon Sutton, which you can listen to on our website. We look forward to sharing our film in its entirety and sharing our findings as we continue our research.

Your donation will help fund our research, film and audio production and keep the project running!