Viewpoints – Placecloud

Riga, Latvia. This viewpoint explores the forced registration of women onto the Russian Empire's police lists of prostitutes in the early 1900s. In Riga, forced registration commonly occurred in the city's hotels, and can be read as official attempts to kick back against perceived moral decline amidst urbanisation, industrialisation, and modernisation.

London, United Kingdom. The concept of feminist marxist architectural history is explored through Jane Rendell’s writing on Burlington Arcade.

London, United Kingdom. Jagonari Educational Resource Centre was a hub for East End women designed by the groundbreaking feminist design co-operative Matrix.

London, United Kingdom. East End Women’s Museum is the only museum dedicated to women’s history in England. It was founded in 2015 as a positive protest against the ‘Jack the Ripper Museum’ in Cable Street. A permanent building is set to open in Barking in 2021 - 2022.

London, United Kingdom. The story of the Focus E15 campaign and their occupation of an empty building in Carpenters Estate to provide a social centre in 2014.

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. Kensal House is a pioneering modern public housing project devised for working class families and designed by architect Maxwell Fry and housing consultant Elizabeth Denby.

London, United Kingdom. muf architecture/art designed a play street for people of all ages near Clissold Park, as part of the wider estate regeneration project.

London, United Kingdom. Park Street (Parkway) ladies’ toilets, Camden - public facilities which tell the story of women’s campaign for inclusive toilets.

London, United Kingdom. Vanbrugh Park Estate by Chamberlin Powell & Bon is a modernist development by the architects of the Barbican and Golden Lane, which prioritises communal external spaces, complete with outdoor laundry drying infrastructure.

Brest, Belarus. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated in the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. This viewpoint examines how registered prostitutes resisted the regulation of prostitution and sought interaction with the authorities to achieve specific objectives. It focuses on a letter penned by 16 registered prostitutes living in Brest (now Belarus) in 1908 to examine everyday experiences of state regulation.