Agenda expandida: Mujeres, raza y la difusión de la Arquitectura Moderna

Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Dissemination of Modern Architecture is a five-year research project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant. It explores the role that women and members of ethnic minorities, primarily African Americans, played in transmitting modern architecture and design internationally between 1920 and 1970.  Strands devoted to patronage, journalism, entrepreneurship, and institution building offer alternatives to accounts that focus primarily on architects. This approach expands our understanding of who had agency in this important story and more generally in shaping the built environment. Taking a global view that stresses comparisons across continents also helps build a more nuanced history of how architecture, landscape architecture, interior decoration, and the design of furnishing were transformed by new ideas that emanated from a multiplicity of sources.  This in turn can help support a more diverse profession that, in the wake of #metoo and Black Lives Matter, is better prepared to engage with a broad public, including to address such social challenges as sustainability and the integration of migrants.Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Dissemination of Modern Architecture (Agenda expandida: mujeres, Raza y la difusión de la Arquitectura Moderna) es un proyecto de investigación de cinco años de duración financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) mediante una Advanced Grant. Este proyecto explora el papel que desempeñaron las mujeres y las minorías étnicas, especialmente las afroamericanas, en la transmisión a nivel internacional de la arquitectura y el diseño moderno entre 1920 y 1970. Las líneas de investigación dedicadas al mecenazgo, al periodismo, al espíritu emprendedor y a la construcción institucional ofrecen alternativas a los relatos centrados principalmente en arquitectos varones. Este enfoque amplía nuestra comprensión de quiénes tuvieron capacidad de acción en esta importante historia y, en general, en la configuración del entorno construido. La adopción de una visión global que ponga el énfasis en las comparaciones entre continentes ayuda a construir una historia con más matices de la transformación de la arquitectura, el paisajismo, la decoración de interiores y el diseño de mobiliario a través de nuevas ideas surgidas de diversas fuentes. Esto, a su vez, puede contribuir a la diversidad en una profesión que, tras la repercusión del #metoo y el Black Lives Matter, está más preparada para interactuar con un público mayor y enfrentarse a desafíos sociales como la sostenibilidad y la integración migratoria

Rooms of their Own: Displaying Architecture by Women in Copenhagen

A review of the exhibition Women in Architecture, held at the Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen (13 May–23 October 2022), curated by Sara Hatla Krogsgaard. This exhibition was held in conjunction with Henriette Steiner and Svava Riesto's project, Women in Danish Architecture 1925–1975

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements