2.7 Gender and Space with Padmini Ray Murray
- Author
- Mary L Churchill, Padmini Ray Murray, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Meg Palladino
- Published
- Thu 12 Mar 2020
- Episode Link
- https://the-view-from-venus.simplecast.com/episodes/27-gender-and-space-with-padmini-ray-murray-PzfLPltn
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 Murray
- Design Beku
- Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology
- Gendering the Smart City
- Wikimedia UK
- Cretons
- Ayona Dotta
- Khadar ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls] video
- Jagori nonprofit
- #AanaJaana ESRI Storymap
- #AANAJAANA [#COMINGGOING] EXHIBITION
- Wikipedia page for Madanpur Khadar JJ Colony
Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas
Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia
