In conversation ... Dirk van den Heuvel

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Associate Professor Dirk van den Heuvel of Delft University of Technology was recently in Australia as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Architecture at Monash University. Dirk sat down with Professor Naomi Stead for a wide-ranging conversation about the significance of sexual identity for people studying and working in architecture; diversity and inclusion policies in Australia and Holland; and the importance of challenging limiting ideas of architecture and design. Drawing on their own experiences as a gay man and lesbian respectively, Dirk and Naomi considered the need to expand advocacy beyond gender parity to include sexuality and cultural background.