Jos Boys

Jos Boys is an architecture-trained, activist, educator, artist and writer. She was a founder member of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative and co-author of their 1984 book Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment (Pluto Press 1984/Verso 2022). Since 2008 she has been co-director of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project with disabled artist Zoe Partington, a disability-led platform that works with disabled artists to explore new ways to think about disability in architectural and design discourse and practice.

Her books Doing Disability Differently: an Alternative Handbook on Architecture, Dis/ability and Designing for Everyday Life (Routledge 2014) and Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017) have become key texts in this field, with the latter called a "brilliant gathering of texts, both synthetic and surprising [that] should be taught in every architecture and design program, and may well become the new standard text for interdisciplinary disability studies courses generally" (''Susan Schweik, Professor of English and Disability Studies, UC Berkeley).'' Boys is also co-editor with Anthony Clarke and John Gardner of ''Neurodivergence and Architecture.''

She has given numerous international keynote talks, including at The Bartlett UCL (2021), Arizona State (2021), Goldsmiths (2020), UTS Sydney (2020), the Design Museum London (2019), Melbourne University School of Design (2019), University of Innsbruck (2019), Yale University School of Architecture (2018), Victoria and Albert Museum (2018), Aarhus University Copenhagen (2017), Architectural Association London (2016), University of the Arts, London (2016) and the Taylor Institute, University of Calgary (2016).

Boys has been a Visiting Professor at Ulster and London Metropolitan Universities. She has been a Design Council Built Environment Expert (BEE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; is Guest Professor at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and an honorary associate professor in the Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, UCL. Jos Boys was one of the BBC’s Women of the Year 2021. Provided by Wikipedia