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https://linktr.ee/gembarton Gem is an author and senior academic, she is interested in the interrelations between human behaviour, speculation and spatial design. At the RCA, Gem teaches MA Interior Design and is responsible for steering the research focus of the programme alongside Professor Graeme Brooker. Gem teaches and publishes on the subjects of gender and feminism, film and spatial production, futures and fictions, narrative and storytelling, reality and representation, career and enterprise, teaching and learning, interiors and architecture. As founding director of the Experimental Realism platform which hosts an online Project Store; a collection of speculative design projects created by students from around the world, she also established a global mentoring programme with a speculative design/futures practitioner; designed to build community, encourage open discourse and facilitate the transition from education into practice. Gem is co-founder of the Office for Speculative Spatial Design (O-SSD) a ThinkTank for research-led speculative spatial design. Through their work we contribute to policy change, towards a more just inclusive society. Publications: Barton, G. (2023) [Spatial] Pedagogic readings of QueerTheory: Experimental Realism and opportunities for teaching and learning in speculative design. In: N.Stead, M. Jobst eds., Queering Architecture. Routledge. Barton, G. (2022) Equitable and Desirable Futures. In: G. Barton, ed., Experimental Realism: (Design) Fictions and Futures. London: RIBA Publishing. Barton, G. and Harriss, H. (2017) Gendered, Non-Gendered, Re-Gendered Tools for Spatial Production. Journal of Architecture and Culture, 5(3), pp. 475-485. Barton, G. (2016) Don’t get a Job, Make a Job: how to make it as a creative graduate. London: Laurence King. Barton, G. (2016) The Grey Area between Reality and Representation: The Practices of Architects and Filmmakers. In: E. Clift, M. Guaralda, A. Mattes, eds., Filming the City – urban documents, design practices & social criticism through the lens. Bristol: Intellect., pp.165-181. Barton, G. (2016) Architecture 2.0. In: H.Harriss, R. Morrow, J. Soane, J. Benedict Brown, eds., The Gendered Profession: The Question of Representation in Space Making. London: RIBA Publishing., pp 192-196. Exhibitions (2014) To Be Destroyed. Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (MOCA). (2012) Tiny Tate, Tate Britain. External positions: Board member, RIBA Journal of Architecture Board member, Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture journal Lead Academic Advisor UK, Architecture LGBT+