Episode 09 - Gender equality and balance in Archviz - With Elena Valeria Miller

Episode 09 of There's Something about Archviz is about gender equality and balance issues in the architectural visualization industry.

Historically, archviz has been a very male-heavy industry, and last statistics from 2016 tell us that women represented only 7% percent of the workforce in archviz.

I believe that the more diverse is a field, and this is especially true in creative professions, the more that field is a thriving one. So I decided to sit down with Elena Valeria Miller and discuss why women are so underrepresented in archviz, and what can we do to encourage more to join the profession.

Elena became recently a spokeswoman for the Women in Archviz platform, with the aim of giving more visibility and support to women in our field.

In our conversation, we discussed how Women in Archviz started, what are the main struggles that women face in archviz, and in which ways the industry could do better in order to improve inclusivity and equality. 

More about Elena:

Elena is a 3d artist, creative director, and author in the making, living in the UK together with her husband, 4-year-old daughter, and cat. With a fine arts background as bachelor of the Visual Arts University in Bucharest, Elena worked in many creative roles across the marketing, broadcast, and publishing sectors, as well as in the editorial field. In 2011, Elena took a leap of faith to leave Romania to attend a Masters course in Illustration and Animation at Coventry University in The United Kingdom.

After graduating with distinction, she restarted her career and focused on learning more about the 3D tools and software that she had encountered during her studies. From that point on, she has devoted her time to learning, practicing and constantly improving her skills and has worked for studios specializing in architectural visualization, automotive events, advertising, and marketing. In 2015, after setting up her own creative studio based in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom, EVNvis, her work started receiving awards and being featured in international publications and websites.

Elena Valeria Miller

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elenavdesign/
• Website: https://www.evnvis.co.uk/