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HyperSext City Exhibition

Tin Sheds Gallery – Sydney, New South Wales

The first in the HyperSext City exhibition series, Monash University XYX Lab’s was held at the Tin Sheds Gallery in Sydney, New South Wales. The show extended XYX Lab’s ongoing local and international applied research, drawing attention to the experiences of women*, girls and LGBTQI+ communities by presenting data and intersectional narratives of gender.

Making gender data visible, and generating new sources of data based on lived experience are essential tools in developing gender-sensitive approaches to design, architecture and urbanism.

Over the exhibition period, the exhibition itself and aligned events aimed to develop agendas, approaches and expertise that communicates to practitioners and scholars in design, architecture, urbanism, and policy as well as those in aligned disciplinary areas and an engaged general audience.

Photo by Brett Brown
Photo by Brett Brown
Photo by Brett Brown
Photo by Brett Brown
Photo by Brett Brown
Photo by Brett Brown
Photo by Brett Brown
Photo by Brett Brown

Past Events

March 2021  • 

Tin Sheds Gallery

Parlour 2021 Sydney Autumn Salon

Conversationalists for the season are Samantha Donnelly and Tiana-Jane Furner-McBeath. Join us to hear about their work, commitments and lives in architecture, then catch up with friends and colleagues, meet new people, build new networks and revive older ones.
April 2021  • 

Tin Sheds Gallery with a guided Night Walk

ARUP Night Walk

Arup recently collaborated with Plan International + XYX Lab Monash University to analyse the relationship between urban lighting and women’s perceptions of safety. The event will take you on a night walk to understand the urban environment in the evening. and ARUP will show you, some practical and unexpected examples of how lighting design can add, or detract from how one feels in the space.
April 2021  • 

Tin Sheds Gallery

Gender-Justice Workshop #2

At the HyperSext City workshop, participants will be sharing stories and strategies with a diverse group of people to consider how design methods can be used to create inclusive practices. With the support of the Monash University XYX Lab, participants will think about spaces, places and experiences from a minoritised perspective. The workshop is all genders and for persons aged 18+.
Pre-recorded video

HyperSext City Floortalk

In this webinar floortalk the Monash University XYX Lab exhibition directors, designers and researchers will discuss data and intersectional narratives and the importance of making the experiences of women, girls and LBGTQI+ communities visible to urban researchers and practitioners.
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March 2021  • 

Tin Sheds Gallery

Gender-Justice Workshop

At the HyperSext City workshop, participants will be sharing stories and strategies with a diverse group of people to consider how design methods can be used to create inclusive practices. With the support of the Monash University XYX Lab, participants will think about spaces, places and experiences from a minoritised perspective. The workshop is all genders and for persons aged 18+.
March 2021  • 

Tin Sheds Gallery

Exhibition Opening

See the Tin Shed Gallery for information and registration

HyperSext Repository

The HyperSext Repository is an online, bespoke website built for and launched at this exhibition. The repository asks for scholars, researchers and practitioners to contribute, document and reference data and research around women*, girls and LGBTQI+ experiences of the urban environment.

The repository will remain live after the exhibition and continue to be developed.

Explore the repository

HyperSext Video Works

“Where are you now?” showcases the XYX Lab’s research, which includes prompts about urban safety, wellbeing and unrest. A call to action.

“Do you feel Safe?” will display the perspectives of women, girls and non-binary people. Individuals will speak to the camera, asking questions about perceptions of urban safety.

View the video works

HyperSext City Floortalk via Webinar

In this webinar the exhibition directors, designers and researchers will discuss the importance of data and intersectional narratives that makes visible the experiences of women, girls and LBGTQI+ communities.

Designer historian Dr Jess Berry will provide a contextual overview of HyperSext City — the installation, hypergraphic, website and video projections—and foreground the XYX Labs focus on personal safety as central to understanding how spatial inequality excludes or hinders engagement with the urban environment.

Communication designer, Head of Monash Design Department and co-director of the XYX Lab – Associate Professor Gene Bawden – will step through the HyperSext HyperGraphic with a focus on the ways that stories, statistics and data amplify the experiences of diverse communities whose voices are often unheard.

Project Facilitator, Designer and Researcher Isabella Webb will address the ways the HyperSext Repository and interactive website brings together pertinent statistics and quotes derived from significant research to help audiences further understand the stories behind the hypergraphic.

Associate Professor and founding director of the Monash University XYX Lab Nicole Kalms will explore the production of video narratives Do you feel Safe? and A Billion Views to capture women, girl’s and gender diverse perspectives of urban space and the need to engage audiences with gendered cityscapes to provoke discussions on ways our cities might be designed to support diversity.