Nicole Kalms lectures in the Department of Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Nicole’s research interests are in the fields of contemporary urbanism, media and feminism. Nicole is currently completing a research project and book titled The Hypersexual City, to be published by Routledge in 2016.
Nicole Kalms's Latest contributions
Review: The Laboratory of the Future at the 2023 Venice Biennale
Nicole Kalms reviews the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition,The Laboratory of the Future, curated by Ghanaian-Scottish architect Lesley Lokko.
Not neutral: Diverse and inclusive public spaces
Nicole Kalms examines how an intersectional approach to design, which recognizes the value of lived experience, can ensure that minoritized people can safely access public amenity.
Exploring gender-sensitive design
In the past decade, much work has begun around gender and how it intersects with class, race, ethnicity and sexuality. But as we attempt to eliminate spatial inequities, there is still much more to be examined in the complex relationship between architecture, gender and sex.
Designing Women
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria highlighted the dynamic and critical force of female designers in shaping contemporary design culture.
Social architecture: Coburg Townhouses
Schored Projects’s Coburg Townhouses, a community housing development in Melbourne’s north designed for women in need, reminds us of the capacity for social architecture to make change.
To design safer parks for women, city planners must listen to their stories
Planners, architects, the police and politicians need to put aside the traditional expert perspective to learn from – and design for – women’s experiences.
Venice 2018: Freespace / Womanspace
Nicole Kalms assembles a list of some of the most unmissable projects by women at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Cultivated architecture: 2015 MPavilion
The 2015 MPavilion by Amanda Levete Architects – the second instalment of this annual architecture commission –presents a fittingly open platform for a diverse list of cultural programs.