In 2003 the Department of Architecture, together with four other departments of the University of Thessaly, co-organized a special program of studies fostering gender and equality related issues in academic education. In this context, it initiated courses relating gender issues to space and architecture as a part of its undergraduate curriculum. The student projects (i.e., products of these courses) revealed and made evident the variety of ways in which gender diversity is inscribed, constructed, and reproduced in and through space. Some of the subject areas which this particular approach to gender illuminated and critically analyzed were: the human dwelling, the city, the application of social stereotypes to design, space-use distinctions, human interaction in the workplace, labour division, codes of apparel and human behaviour, mass-media as a source of stereotypes, and so forth. The purpose of this audio-visual production is to present the range of methods and issues that these courses introduced, thus constituting an initial body of educational material for the study of gender and space.
