Make Space for Girls: Angela Manning Wood
Event Date: 06/08/2025
Location: THE MUSEUM OF BATH ARCHITECTURE
Address: COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON CHAPEL, BATH, BA1 5NA
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Making space for Girls with Angela Manning Wood of Make Space for Girls
Museum of Bath Architecture
The Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, The Vineyards, Bath, BA1 5NA
Talk begins at 6pm, doors at 5.30pm
Talks are 45mins-1hr with additional time for questions and discussion
Tickets £12 Student £6
Bar serves wine, beers and soft drinks - card payments only
Make Space is a charity, which since 2021 has been working to make our parks and similar spaces more welcoming to teenage girls, non-binary young people, and the boys for whom current park provision doesn’t work. It isn’t about creating segregated spaces, designing out boys or reinforcing stereotypes. It’s about taking steps to positively design in teenage girls and make our parks feel welcoming, safe and inclusive.
In this talk Angela will look at the background to the work of Make Space for Girls, drawing together what we know about who uses the spaces in parks designed for teenagers, and unpicking some of the misconceptions about what teenagers want. Angela will also look at examples of more inclusive spaces and talks about how we can work with young women and girls to create spaces in our parks that feel they are “for them”.
No one sets out to create parks that don’t feel welcoming to teenage girls; it isn’t inevitable that they should feel excluded; and we don’t have to try to “fix” the girls so that they will use the facilities that are there.
Angela Manning Wood is a Trustees for Make Space for Girls. She is also a mother of 3 girls aged 9, 6, and (almost) 4 and an Urban Design Director for Pegasus Group, one of the leading multi-disciplinary consultancies supporting developers and landowners deliver development within the UK. Angela has over 15 years of experience designing the built environment from 1-2 bespoke dwellings through to strategic growth of 1000’s of dwellings. Working at the coalface she sees the real time the impact MSFG is steadily having on the design developments and is honoured to be representing them for this talk.
Accessibility
The entrance and event space are all level access. Assistance dogs are welcome. The museum toilets are located up three steps and then down a flight of stairs and there is no lift available.
This event is sponsored by RIBA Bristol & Bath