It also highlighted issues of ongoing concern a women's forum was subsequently formed to investigate them.

There is also general agreement, we believe, that we must resolve the nationality question, which lies at the heart of the Ivorian crisis.

I would certainly hope that we can resolve our differences regarding the scale of contributions so that we can deal with the problems in the outside world, and not be so preoccupied with internal problems.

And I just remember feeling all these stories came out of the woodwork, and I felt like I happened upon this secret society of women that I now was a part of, which was reassuring and also really concerning.

And it made us rethink the whole notion of how we work and how we make things, and it led us to ideas that were closer to fashion design as we flattened out surfaces, and then brought them back together as they could make spatial combinations.