Mapping Rhythm is a mini-mentoring workshop through which we follow our everyday life patterns and rhythms and map out possibilities for activism to realise our creative projects within them. It also helps us to gain insight into understanding the physical, psychological, sensory and emotional states in the environments, practices and people in our daily lives. The MAPPING RHYTHM mini-mentoring workshop is made up of 3 parts in which we will use the tools of visual mapping to sprinkle positive resistance, to transform or to add new practices to your creative projects. As you emerge into mapping through drawing, collage or painting, you immerse yourself in practices to deepen the understanding of the relationships between your body, your environment and your practices. You will become more aware of the rhythms of your day to day life.

As my eldest daughter's 7th birthday approaches, I am also thinking about how (not) to work in architecture after becoming a mother, something that has also been with me for the past 7 years. Preparing for a job search and interview after becoming a mother is not an easy task. The terrain seems uncertain, you have to come to terms with one of the biggest transformations in a woman's life, you aren’t sure what to expect.

When I started looking for a job, I thought nothing had changed. I can still do it, push myself, work long hours, I will be able to do it all. I will be at home and at work and it will all work out magically. I didn't know that working full-time and being a mother was the hardest job in the world. Sure, there are nurseries and schools and babysitters, but there is a price to pay for the time we spend at work away from our children and the time we spend with our children away from work.