The founders of ZAD (Society of Female Architects) are engaged in various architectural activities – from active and creative design with many recognized works to project office owners, from university professors and scientists to active participants and managers in local government, NGO activists, architecture critics, theorists, experts in interior design, urban planning, and finally design all the way to architecture-related media. Our structure is of all ages, but we are mostly already recognized authors who made the decision to deal with the activities of the society, primarily in order to determine an easier development path for their successors in the future within the architectural profession.

At the Mikser Festival 2021, ZAD, in cooperation with UN Women, participates in the panel “Happier Cities – When Nature and Citizens Unite”, which aims to include these perspectives in the public dialogue on planning sustainable, healthy, and happier cities and finding ways to balance the unsound relations of the modern urban environments that cause different types of social distortions, stress and dissatisfaction, which directly affect the health and well-being of citizens. A special focus of this conversation will be on gender-responsive cities, within which an extensive study on the position of women and vulnerable social groups in urban areas will be presented.