Co-designing the new Feminist Library site is something of a passion project for Sanderson. She regularly visited the current building to conduct research while doing her MA, and overheard that they were moving to a new site during one of these trips. She asked if she could work on the redesign, and the rest is history.

“I love the Feminist Library. It has such an important legacy as an institution, and it’s helped me a lot within my academia,” she says.

Studio Lucy Sanderson is working alongside Hi-Vis! Feminist Design Collective on the redesign, while all the furniture and fittings are being made by the Power Project, a metal and wood workshop for women and girls.

If the Feminist Library can raise all the money it needs, they’ll bring together a diverse team of female and non-binary architects, designers, makers and engineers.

“We’re a design team working together collaboratively, which I love, because it’s a group of really powerful, strong women and non-binary people coming together and designing a future space for the Feminist Library,” says Sanderson. “It’s been an immense learning experience.”

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Meet the spatial designer who puts feminism at the heart of her work