The Future of the Women's Institute: Reclaiming the Dockyard Part 2 Project 2022 Rachel Sarah Butt University of Portsmouth | UK Fuelled by the feminist novel ‘City of Ladies’ by Christine de Pizan, the ‘Future of the Women’s Institute’ serves as a rebellion and retaliation against the unrecognised and displaced women within today’s society. Recognising a patriarchal toxicity and catalysing a conversation on the place of gender in our built environments.The thesis is foraged on the three ladies presented to Christine de Pizan in her book - Lady Reason, Lady Rectitude and Lady Justice. All three ladies play a pivoting role in the development and construction of the institute, as well as a devotion to each other to serve the women within the institute as they did before in the fictional fortified ‘City of Ladies.’‘The Future of the Women’s Institute’ looks to create a passage between the historic charitable ethos of the WI, as well as fuelling the next generation of female activists. Designing a place of advocacy, resilience, representation and disruption. Manipulating the Historic Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth, acclaimed for its history of high security, male dominated portrayal, and subsequently diminishing those boundaries as a way of fortifying the Women’s Institute – a balance of conservation, yet disruption. Tutor(s) Nicola Crowson Tina Wallbridge