2.7 Gender and Space with Padmini Ray Murray
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English - March 12, 2020 20:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDocumentary Society & Culture Business Careers higher education women Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Topics Discussed in this Episode:
What is your favorite breakfast food?Reasons for leaving academia and founding the feminist collective, Design Beku, doing work in public humanities.How Padmini is able to reach more audiences by working outside of academia. Feminist spaces within Digital Humanities and the need for improvement. The importance of intersectionality for the work of dominant caste feminists in India. The harnessing of Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and Instagram as activist spaces and spaces for feminist solidarity. Digital spaces as spaces for testimony and counterpoints to national narratives. Gendering the Smart City, a project focused on demonstrating the ways in which gender characterizes our relationship to the city. Her work with a group of young women living in a resettlement colony in Delhi through Jagori, a locally embedded NGO. The use of WhatsApp Diaries to document gendered experiences in the Madanpur Khadar neighborhood in Delhi. When it comes to designing space, the default is to design spaces for men.Resources Discussed in this Episode:
Padmini Ray MurrayDesign BekuSrishti Institute of Art, Design, and TechnologyGendering the Smart CityWikimedia UKCretonsAyona DottaKhadar ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls] videoJagori nonprofit#AanaJaana ESRI Storymap #AANAJAANA [#COMINGGOING] EXHIBITIONWikipedia page for Madanpur Khadar JJ ColonyMusic Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas
Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia