2.7 Gender and Space with Padmini Ray Murray
Podcast |
View from Venus
Publisher |
Meg Palladino, Mary L Churchill
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Business, 
Careers, 
Education, 
Higher Education, 
Interview, 
Society & Culture
Categories Via RSS |
Business, 
Careers, 
Documentary, 
Health & Fitness, 
Mental Health, 
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Mar 12, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:21:50

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:

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

In this week's episode, guest expert Padmini Ray Murray, founder of Design Beku, a feminist collective in India, joins us to talk about the intersection of feminism and digital humanities and the gendering of physical and virtual spaces We wrap up with our best tips and advice for thinking differently about the ways in which space is gendered.and at the end we'll have an assignment for our listeners- we'll ask you to pay close attention to how a space is designed and who the space is really created for. Share your story with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook and tag us @university_of_venus on IG and @UVenus on Twitter or post it on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/UVenus/ and we will share, retweet, and amplify! Find University of Venus on Instagram @university_of_venus , Twitter @UVenus , and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/UVenus/

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:

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

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