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FAME collective, London (2026)

03/05/2026

Practicing Care through Architecture ✨

FAME Collective hosted the public exhibition Practicing Care through Architecture Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, expanding our earlier research Exposing the Barriers in Architecture, from a FAME Perspective.

Curated by Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows (founder of FAME collective) and co-created by FAME collective, the exhibition brought together testimonies, textiles, and drawings exploring discrimination and exclusion in architecture across race, class, gender, and migration. Through indigenous and feminist methods inspired by Nakshi Kantha, the exhibition reimagined architectural practice as a space for activism, justice, and equity.

Across four public events and guided tours, the exhibition created dialogue between students, educators, practitioners, and policymakers on how practices of care can inform pedagogy, professional practice, and policy.

This video offers a glimpse into the exhibition’s themes climate care, voices, resistance and collective knowledge-making and reflects our ongoing commitment to reshaping architecture for those historically marginalised within academia, profession and beyond.

Partly funded by the Just Environment Incubator Fund 2025, the exhibition builds on our earlier Royal Institute of British Architects exhibition, supported by the RIBA Research Fund 2020.
The exhibition team: Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, Iba Dagny Tony, Tasnim Huda, Adaeze Nwosu, Roseline Anton Gnanamanoharan, Donja Zahedi Saysan.

03/05/2026

Practicing Care through Architecture ✨

FAME Collective hosted the public exhibition Practicing Care through Architecture Bartlett School of Architecture UCL , expanding our earlier research Exposing the Barriers in Architecture, from a FAME Perspective.

Curated by Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows (founder of FAME collective) and co-created by FAME collective, the exhibition brought together testimonies, textiles, and drawings exploring discrimination and exclusion in architecture across race, class, gender, and migration. Through indigenous and feminist methods inspired by Nakshi Kantha, the exhibition reimagined architectural practice as a space for activism, justice, and equity.

Across four public events and guided tours, the exhibition created dialogue between students, educators, practitioners, and policymakers on how practices of care can inform pedagogy, professional practice, and policy.

This video offers a glimpse into the exhibition’s themes climate care, voices, resistance and collective knowledge-making and reflects our ongoing commitment to reshaping architecture for those historically marginalised within academia, profession and beyond.

Partly funded by the Just Environment Incubator Fund 2025, the exhibition builds on our earlier Royal Institute of British Architects exhibition supported by the RIBA Research Fund 2020.
The exhibition team: Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, Iba Dagny Tony, Tasnim Huda, Adaeze Nwosu, Roseline Anton Gnanamanoharan, Donja Zahedi Saysan.

03/05/2026

Practicing Care through Architecture ✨
FAME Collective hosted the public exhibition Practicing Care through Architecture at Bartlett School of Architecture UCL , expanding our earlier research Exposing the Barriers in Architecture, from a FAME Perspective.

Curated by Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows (founder of FAME collective) and co-created by FAME collective, the exhibition brought together testimonies, textiles, and drawings exploring discrimination and exclusion in architecture across race, class, gender, and migration. Through indigenous and feminist methods inspired by Nakshi Kantha, the exhibition reimagined architectural practice as a space for activism, justice, and equity.

Across four public events and guided tours, the exhibition created dialogue between students, educators, practitioners, and policymakers on how practices of care can inform pedagogy, professional practice, and policy.

This video offers a glimpse into the exhibition’s themes climate care, voices, resistance and collective knowledge-making and reflects our ongoing commitment to reshaping architecture for those historically marginalised within academia, profession and beyond.

Partly funded by the Just Environment Incubator Fund 2025, the exhibition builds on our earlier Royal Institute of British Architects exhibition supported by the RIBA Research Fund 2020.

The exhibition team: Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, Iba Dagny Tony, Tasnim Huda, Adaeze Nwosu, Roseline Anton Gnanamanoharan, Donja Zahedi Saysan.

08/02/2026

✨ As we begin 2026, we are pleased to introduce this year’s team — the people behind FAME collective who continue to drive our campaign and advance our shared commitment to a more inclusive architectural profession and education.

Last year marked a significant milestone as FAME Collective turned five. Since our founding in 2020 by Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows , we have continued to collectively challenge intersectional racial and gender barriers in architecture, while building a network grounded in care, equity, and justice.

In 2025, we launched our second public exhibition, ‘Practicing Care Through Architecture,’ at Bartlett School of Architecture UCL . Bringing together indigenous knowledge, climate care, and co-created textiles, the exhibition shared powerful stories of resistance, healing, and hope, from marginalised voices in architecture. Through open dialogues and participatory events, our research engaged policymakers, educators, and practitioners, shaping conversations toward systemic change.

At the heart of the collective is Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows, our founder and principal investigator. Tumpa leads FAME’s research projects titled:
‘Practicing Care Through Architecture,’ and
‘Exposing the Barriers in Architecture, from a FAME Perspective’.
Using activism, pedagogy, and creative practice to challenge systemic inequities in the discipline. Her leadership continues to inspire new generations of designers and researchers to reimagine architecture through the lens of care, justice, and collective empowerment.

Each year, our collective grows stronger through the commitment, creativity, and care of its team members. We thank everyone who has contributed to amplifying our work and strengthening our community.
2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year, with forthcoming exhibitions, public talks, and collaborative research events. We look forward to sharing more as we continue to work collectively to expose barriers, promote practices care, and reimagine a more equitable future for architecture.

Visit our website (link in bio) to learn about our research, upcoming events, and ways to collaborate.

08/02/2026

✨ As we begin 2026, we are pleased to introduce this year’s team — the people behind FAME collective who continue to drive our campaign and advance our shared commitment to a more inclusive architectural profession and education.

Last year marked a significant milestone as FAME Collective turned five. Since our founding in 2020 by Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows , we have continued to collectively challenge intersectional racial and gender barriers in architecture, while building a network grounded in care, equity, and justice.

In 2025, we launched our second public exhibition, ‘Practicing Care Through Architecture,’ at Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. Bringing together indigenous knowledge, climate care, and co-created textiles, the exhibition shared powerful stories of resistance, healing, and hope, from marginalised voices in architecture. Through open dialogues and participatory events, our research engaged policymakers, educators, and practitioners, shaping conversations toward systemic change.

At the heart of the collective is Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows, our founder and principal investigator. Tumpa leads FAME’s research projects titled:
‘Practicing Care Through Architecture,’ and
‘Exposing the Barriers in Architecture, from a FAME Perspective’.
Using activism, pedagogy, and creative practice to challenge systemic inequities in the discipline. Her leadership continues to inspire new generations of designers and researchers to reimagine architecture through the lens of care, justice, and collective empowerment.

Each year, our collective grows stronger through the commitment, creativity, and care of its team members. We thank everyone who has contributed to amplifying our work and strengthening our community.
2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year, with forthcoming exhibitions, public talks, and collaborative research events. We look forward to sharing more as we continue to work collectively to expose barriers, promote practices care, and reimagine a more equitable future for architecture.

Visit our website (link in bio) to learn about our research, upcoming events, and ways to collaborate.

30/12/2025

Build It Together: Women’s Experience in Architecture is a landmark report by the The Fawcett Society - Official, commissioned by RIBA London , exploring women’s experiences across the architectural profession.

The images shown are from the launch event at the Houses of Commons on 20 October 2025.
FAME Collective is referenced in the Build It Together report for its invaluable initiatives promoting women and diversity in architecture. The research highlights persistent inequities within the profession, including barriers to career progression, pay gaps, exclusionary workplace cultures, and challenges related to caregiving.

The report underscores the critical role of collectives such as FAME Collective in shaping a more inclusive and equitable profession. It demonstrates how research, advocacy, and collaborative practice are essential tools for addressing long-standing structural inequalities. Female-led collectives—including Women In Architecture (WIA) , Urbanistasnw , partwcollective , Black Females in Architecture , and —are driving change through mentoring, peer support, community-building, and advocacy, showing how collective action is reshaping the profession from the ground up.

Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows of FAME Collective shared personal insights as a South Asian woman architect, reflecting on how systemic barriers intersect with race, gender, and class. Her contribution emphasised the importance of care, accountability, and community within architectural education and practice, highlighting the transformative power of grassroots networks.

FAME Collective remains committed to advancing equity, visibility, and transformative practice in architecture.

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30/12/2025

Doing Otherwise: Tracing Feminist Urban Methodologies.

FAME Collective is proud to have participated in the ‘Doing Otherwise: Tracing Feminist Urban Methodologies’, hosted by UCL URBAN LABORATORY, Bartlett School of Architecture UCLon 22nd July 2025.

The roundtable brought together scholars working across feminist, decolonial and critical methodologies to reflect on what it means to do research “otherwise” in complex urban contexts. Contributions from Jordana Ramalho, Shannon Philip, Neem Talhouk and Myfanwy Taylor explored navigating power and positionality in research, working across institutional, community and activist spaces, and developing participatory, interdisciplinary and co-creative approaches to knowledge production. Together, the speakers shared insights from work spanning informal settlements, gender and sexuality, humanitarian innovation, community economies and anti-displacement struggles.

Drawing on decolonial feminist embodied architectural practice, Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows (founder of FAME collective), spoke about design as an active tool for socio-spatial decolonisation, climate justice and spatial justice, and reflected on how research and creative practice can operate as forms of activism. Her contribution formed part of a wider discourse on the lived realities of minoritised practitioners, highlighting the barriers exposed through FAME Collective’s work and the importance of care, accountability and reciprocity in both architectural education and practice.

Chaired by Catalina Ortiz and Kate Maclean , the session created an open, dialogic space to exchange strategies and imagine new feminist and critical praxes that respond to urgent social, spatial and climate challenges. The event formed part of a series celebrating 20 years of UCL URBAN LABORATORY, reaffirming the value of collective, justice-oriented and transformative research practices.
We are pleased to have been able to participate in this event and look forward to continuing to collaborate with fellow practitioners to explore alternative methods of practice and critical discourse.

30/12/2025

Festival of the Commons in Architectural Writing hosted by Bartlett School of Architecture UCL ✨

As part of the programme, Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows —architect, academic, design researcher, and founder of FAME Collective—led a Knowledge Exchange Textile Workshop, bringing feminist, inclusive, and decolonial perspectives into conversations on architectural writing and practice.
We reclaimed UCL’s Council Room—a space typically reserved for governance and power-making—to imagine alternative ways of producing knowledge together; transforming UCL’s Council Room into a site of collective making and knowledge exchange.

FAME Collective was proud to participate in the Festival of the Commons in Architectural Writing, hosted by Lidia Gasperoni, Jane Rendell, and Polly Gould, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, on 20 June 2025.

The festival explores ideas of the commons in architecture and writing; what we share, how we collaborate, and how shared practices can be expressed through writing about the constructed and deconstructed environment. Bringing together staff, students, alumni and international researchers, the day centred around collective knowledge-making and critical spatial practice.

The festival developed in collaboration with the Just Environments Cluster, In-Commons (BSA × University of Melbourne), and Between the Text and the Edit (BSA × University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). Supported by the ABP-Bartlett Collaboration Grant and the Global Bilateral UCL-Wits Partnership Development Seed Fund 2024/25, the festival created space for underrepresented voices, global exchange, and collective approaches to architecture and writing.
It was a truly wonderful day to be part of, and we look forward to FAME continuing to engage with and contribute to such vital events in the year ahead.

12/12/2025

🎉 FAME Collective turns 5!
This September, we celebrated five years of challenging intersectional racial and gender barriers faced by female architects of minority ethnic backgrounds and building a community rooted in equity, care, and justice.
Founded in 2020 by Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellow , FAME Collective continues to expose systemic barriers in academia and practice.
In 2025, we launched our second public exhibition, “Practicing Care Through Architecture”, at . It brought together indigenous knowledge, climate care, and co-designed textile pieces representing a range of practices of care. Some embroidery threads carried the lived experiences of structural barriers in architecture. Other pieces highlighted climate care practices, prompting vital conversations about equity, justice, and care in the built environment.
Our research reached wider audiences through Open Dialogue and participatory events, creating safe spaces for policymakers, educators, practitioners, and students to collaborate. A Board member from the Architects Registration Board joined to help shape policy discussions. Our research book is available to order for anyone interested, and we aim to continue touring the exhibition nationwide to activate dialogue and change.
To our collaborators, supporters, and community: thank you for walking this journey with us. Here’s to amplifying more voices, strengthening collective power, and shaping equitable futures in architecture—together.
Email us to collaborate. Please do not attach files to the email: [email protected]

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