2.7 Gender and Space with Padmini Ray Murray

View from Venus

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