Opening: Women’s Building Forum

In 1980, a group of women working in architecture and construction come together to form Women´s Building Forum (Kvinnors Byggforum). They want to reshape housing, put everyday needs in focus, and challenge a male-dominated industry by centring women´s experiences.

Uninvited, the take part in the Boplats 80 exhibition in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. With a full-scale model of the shared spaces in a multi-family building, they present alternatives to the era´s often anonymous housing environments. The installation attracts great attention, but also scepticism, and the action becomes the starting point of a long-term commitment to reimagine future housing and broaden who gets to shape the built enivornment.

In Autumn 2025, a full-scale reconstruction of Women´s Building Forum´s contribution to Boplats 80 opens in ArkDes collection.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition Women´s Building Forum and step into a pastel-coloured story of resistance, community, and the power to change!

Program

18:00 Opening speech: Karin Nilsson, Acting Director, ArkDes, curators Frida Rosenberg and Frida Melin,  and Charlotte Holst and Kerstin Ronnemark, architects and co-founders of Women´s Building Forum.
18:15 Introduction to the exhibition Women´s Building Forum