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RIBA Radio is a pop-up radio station providing 28 hours of Real Inclusive Brilliant Action, propelling the architecture and built environment sectors to move forward with EDI (Equity, Diversity & Inclusion), using Cultural Intelligence - CQ - as a foundational behavioural tool.

CQ Q stands for quotient, because its a measure as well as a skill is another way of saying Cultural Intelligence.

Cultural Intelligence is the capability to work and relate effectively with those who are different from you. Its the framework that allows you to consciously create procedural changes, to mitigate the influence of hidden bias.

Research proved that in order to be successful at working with those who are different from us we need to have four capabilities: CQ Drive, CQ Knowledge, CQ Strategy and CQ Action.

RIBA Radio content is based on these four capabilities, moving the listener from knowing why EDI is important in architecture to tangible outcomes they can learn from and take themselves.

Programming:
Day 1: Overview - what is CQ, how do we challenge our bias, where we are with inclusion in architecture
Day 2: CQ Drive - how do we motivate ourselves to work and effectively relate to those different to us. Tackling fear and cancel culture, managing discomfort, using data to motivate us, and overcoming difficulty.
Day 3: CQ Knowledge 1 - Women: Gender Pay Gap, Reproductive health in the workplace, unpaid caring responsibilities, women in architecture; Race; the biological fallacy of race, being an underrepresented racial group in architecture.
Day 4: CQ Knowledge 2 - Socio-economic diversity: the lived experiences of those from poorer backgrounds entering the profession; LGBTQ+: the lived experiences of those from LGBTQ+ backgrounds in the profession; Disability: the voice of the disabled in education, the profession, in design outcomes and as clients and stakeholders.
Day 5: CQ Strategy 1 - Planning for, checking assumptions about, and being self aware in, actions with those who are different from us: Inclusive Recruitment, Architectural Education, Architecture outside London, Menopause in the workplace.
Day 6: CQ Strategy 2 - Inclusive Design, Decolonisation, International Architects in the UK, Organisational and Individual awareness.
Day 7: CQ Action - Adaptations that work, Supporting the underrepresented, Inclusive Outcomes, next steps for Architecture