“Cities are the locations from which global movements of capital and information emanate, the locations of everyday lives that are buffeted, restructured, and terrorized by national and international forces, and the places where women act to mold social, economic, political, and cultural processes of change at all spatial scales” (Preston & Ustundag, 2005, 'A Companion to Feminist Geography').
Assessing ‘gendered’ experiences in the cities throughout the world has been an uproar for quite some time– which has started gaining equal importance in the cities of India, whereby discussions regarding unequal utilization of spaces and places becomes the central matter of concern. Well, the importance of it was experienced quite thoroughly by the conductor and attendees of the “Gender and the City” workshop, which was held online on the 23rd of September 2023. The workshop was organized with a simple agenda – but after discussions and exchange of dialogues, it remained rather complex and heavy. The fundamental idea was to initiate a conversation around the fact of how experiences covering everyday life of women could change the perspective of occupying and enjoying spaces which are safe, comfortable and help women remain coveted from the typical “male gaze”. Sounds familiar right? It provided a scope for inviting topics to the stage which are usually forgotten while formulating and adjudicating policies at larger scales – the issues of everyday experiences of women.
Several notable speakers, presenters and attendees joined who ranged from policy researcher, activists, academic scholars and feminist urbanist. The workshop unfortunately did not have any sub-themes under which the discussions were categorized – but after the discussions certain key themes have emerged, which are as follows:-
1. The broader concept of feminist urban planning and feminist urban geography
2. The concept of understanding a gendered lens towards designing cities and urban policies
3. An understanding of historical appropriation of spaces and de-gendering them
4. Space as a category being versatile within the public and the private
5. Need for Inclusive and Equitable distribution of Data regarding the experiences of marginalized communities at large
6. The need for inducing dialogues beyond national borders to humanize the intersectional experiences, yet not universalizing it
While the major outcomes were somehow included within these few themes, they were not limited to this. Several such exciting conversations, reviews and feedbacks made me understand that there are a lot of things unknown to us, which only becomes clear through dialogue and discussions. Ensuring that all narratives collected and added upon each other – not as homogenous categories but unique collection of experiences adds to a value-rich epistemology that helps in voicing alternatives imaginations of places/spaces in the urban fabric. Our situatedness and our multi-dimensional voices could bring about new agendas of creating cities which are shared equally without compromising the standard of equity.
Now, the esteemed speakers and presenters will be shared out here before I begin to talk about the major inferences acquired from their presentations and discussions with participants.
• First up, Dr. Bhawna Shivan who is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bharati University, affiliated under Delhi University – spoke on “Analyzing City Aesthetics with a Gendered Perspective: Navigating Urban Environments”. It was a session which included conversations on the basics of Feminist and Gendered Geography – while mentioning stalwart theorists like Sara Ahmed, Katharine McKinnon, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda McDowell; covering issues like how city services and infrastructures are not gender-just, which further added on the aspect of urban aesthetics, a fundamental aspect of city imagery which has excluded the importance of giving equal voice to “othered” gender identities. She began with one of the most fundamental public infrastructure and facility that should be available for all – toilets, which makes spaces cleaner, healthier and more accessible. She focused on the ways of increasing gender inclusivity through approaches like Gender Mainstreaming (by Eva Kail) in budgeting and accessibility to public toilets and supporting Gender-Sensitive Design Of Policies, Infrastructure or Services, and Designing Cities According to The Specificities of one’s Gender, Intersectional Positionality and Their Physical Capacity. Her Presentation also included the example of a gendered-space reclamation campaign, titled “Girls at Dhabas”(2015), which was started in Pakistan and now has spread to many parts of India as a form of “Desi Feminism”, whereby women challenge the stereotypical restrictions put on their ability to enjoy a period of leisure or the ability to loiter. She even mentioned that accessibility to certain spaces or places could be based on someone’s class-based positionality thereby restricting access to certain types of transport as well – like metros in Delhi. Her discussion included ideas like naming streets on important female historical figures or someone who has been erased from our memories deliberately. She mentioned the importance of safety audits, vibrant and livable spaces which are sustainable as well, and trying to emulate the accessibilities provided within shopping malls – which are privatized public spaces – in public infrastructures like diaper changing platforms for babies, breastfeeding spaces, which would increase tolerance and add a sense of egalitarian belonging within everyone. She did mention about the introduction of women-only public spaces yet having a major drawback of not being properly maintained because of it being ‘free and accessible’ for women. Her final remark was on establishing a campaign which would communicate the individual needs of all its citizens – basically reclaiming your Right To The City!
• Second presenter was Aliya Usmani, who is a Postgraduate in History and is a Young India Fellow from Cohort 2020-2021. Her interests and specializations are in labour, artisan and gender history. Her Master’s is focused on Skill Development of women in Post Independent India. Her topic of discussion was “Randi Ki Masjid: Tangible Remains of a ‘Randi’s’ Past as a part of the City’s Landscape”. She spoke about the historical figure Mubarak Begum, who was one of the most favorite wives of Sir David Ochterlony (the White Mughal). The term Randi as we know today with its derogatory meaning, was a completely different word back in the time of Mubarak Begum which meant a much sought-after prima donna (chief female singer), which also tells us how interpreting women’s character might have evolved through history. While Mubarak Begum had a lot of financial power and political hold amongst the upper social circles – yet her respect seemed limited to that of a “concubine or a dancing girl”. Through her presentation, the speaker wanted to express the importance of the Mosque being a significant part of history and how such important historical figures get subdued in the stories of patriarchal heroics. Women being mentioned as just one special chapter called “women in this specific historical period” in school textbooks are just tokenistic representations which make matters worse than improving the propagation of important narratives. The Mosque now has been recently restored, has even been given the accolade of being the Second Jerusalem in the 19th century, and yet it continues to be a male-centric or masculine space like any other Masjid at current times. She mentioned how heritage sites themselves are inaccessible in so many ways – which are not just limited to ritualistic restrictions but also poor availability of public toilets and even in Jama Masjid, women are not even allowed unless they are accompanied with men of family or spouse. While spaces do have their importance historically, it depends on the power of retelling such histories that narratives remain culturally relevant and people get to understand the importance of such figures – how agencies could be utilized and not tied behind the veil of shame and imperious “honor”. The only thing which I could remember is from an interpretation of Romila Thapar’s understanding of the Somanatha Case where it is crucial to remember that in the broad paradigm of historiographical approach, history has been understood from varied sources because it helps us get a better and clearer picture of the actual incident. Various sources of history including chronicles and scriptures, show biased and exaggerated accounts of the kings and their deeds, so that they could have a decorated and celebrated image among the people of the kingdom then, and the times coming by. These inscriptions therefore have to be studied with caution keeping the metanarrative in mind, which becomes a difficult task when the historians find contrasting narratives from different sources. A history might restructure itself after finding new sources of information with passing time and therefore add on to the freshly drawn narratives by historians, henceforth the historians have to keep in mind the way how the incident was interpreted over centuries.
• Our next keynote speaker was Meera Sunderarajan, who is a Development Professional working on the issues of Gender in Southern India. She is presently the Team Lead for Gender and Policy Lab set up by the Greater Chennai Corporation – getting support from the Nirbhaya Funds in 2022 to address the issues of Women’s Safety in Public Spaces. She spoke on the topic – “Building Safe and Inclusive Cities”. Her main focus was on the aspect of how women could get access to better mobility options and equitable access to public spaces, which are necessarily the enablers of empowering women. She went on to discuss about the issues commonly faced by women – for instance, buses having higher stairs, public toilets being less accessible, how the commuting pattern differs for men and women and women doing trip chaining (which makes them use more number of public transport), bus stands being dimly lit and how allowing spaces behind bus stands could allow blind spots for men to indulge in suspicious activities – thus making those spaces uncomfortable for women. However, safe spaces for women were also categorized through research findings – where they mainly voted for places like airport, places of worship, schools, metro, etc. She shared a toolkit from the World Bank – “Toolkit for Enabling Gender Responsive Urban Mobility and Public Spaces. India” (2022). Through the gender audits conducted by Chennai Gender Lab, she showed us comparative understanding of well-designed and safe public infrastructure, side-by-side of those infrastructures but in precarious conditions. Lastly her conclusion included recommendations like prioritizing gender safety audits, ensuring gender sensitization trainings for government professionals, ensuring more active and participatory utilization of public spaces to encourage the act of leisure among the subdued genders.
• Our next presenter was Sayantani Ghosh, who is a Master’s Graduate in Sociology and has also recently cracked UGC NET. She has an avid interest in reading and loves to conjure up various types of analysis with a socio-political twist to it. Her topic was “Gendered Claim To Masculine City space: Exploring Women`s Transit Through The Masculine Space as Everyday Space of Bonds and Vigour inside a Gym of Kolkata”. She spoke about the commercial gym as a space for re-establishing the concept of female leisure and bonding. She has been a fitness enthusiast because of which she had exposure to such a space where women could come together with a common agenda of achieving something – where the personal desires somehow achieve collective wings in order to make individualistic goals met. She took major inspiration from the graduation dissertation of one of her friends - Dibbankita Saha, titled – “The Image of a Fit Body and Gym Culture in Kolkata: A Sociological Study”. Her focus was on understanding how spaces of fitness could turn into an arena of leisure, another contested aspect for women. As suggested by Betsy Wearing, women’s sense of leisure is far different than men’s conception, because for them leisure included solidarity with their own sex – which translated more into companionship than competition (1998). Public spaces could actually have an increased importance than private spaces, even more than your own home could be understood through her interpretations as women who have been married might feel uncomfortable to practice working out on terraces (a threshold between public and private) – as and due to the shame and honor attached to her image being representative of her family’s as well. Gym spaces might be a public place but due to stricter and structured rules of conduct women feel safe as well. Through her discussion a crucial takeaway was the aspect of leisure, the focus on honor and shame, the concept of body image and body positivity. It establishes a certain purpose to venture out in the public space for homemakers and helps in building sisterhood!
• Our next presenter was Frederikke Bencke, who is a Feminist Geographer and South Asianist by training. She is currently working in the Danish Research Center for Gender Equality. Her topic was - “Methodologies in Feminist Geography - Ethnographic Perspectives from Fieldwork in Delhi”. Frederikke went to discuss about her experience of doing fieldwork in Delhi and how the methodologies or viewpoint of the field was structured around biases which would further not allow to broaden the scope of researching a geographically different location. The toolkits used for doing qualitative or quantitative studies were isolated in nature and felt as if they were not in conjecture with the field, which has to be maintained while assessing the gender dynamics in urban spaces. This has to be maintained while understanding the importance of positionality and the variety of intersectionality present in different countries and their contexts. Participatory feminist geography was discussed as an integral methodology which helps in unearthing a strong sense of placemaking, which could have different connotations for women (as well as the LGBTQ+ community) and could be done through various means, more importantly through bottom-up approaches and community collectivism. She mentioned Global South is always considered to be an anomaly for the Global North, which needs to be dissected and understood in an isolated manner, something which is alienated from its core essence and understood – which has a lot of problematic implications – because of which decolonial methods are also crucial for interpreting and analyzing transnational and international research. She highly acclaimed the aspect of activism and academia coming together because bridging such fields would ensure a lot of benefit for policymaking and understanding the actual, base level priorities of design urban spaces or studying them – to further deepen the levels of research. She even highlighted a statement that gendered discourse in India, on her personal level of experience, its though current is far more advanced than Denmark itself, she positively acknowledged the feminist movements formed through various media platforms.
• Our next keynote speaker was Vanessa Peter, who is the founder of Information and Resource Center for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC). She has 18 years of experience in the development sector and she has worked towards ensuring access to land and adequate housing for the vulnerable sections. She has been associated with the office of the Advisor to the Supreme Court. She has been instrumental in the designing and implementation of “Shelter for Urban Homeless” for the Greater Chennai Corporation. She continues to be a policy researcher and a social activist since 2005. Her topic was “Need for Adopting Participatory Mechanisms for Evolving Gender-Responsive Cities”. She harped mainly on the way women’s participation had been less while conducting participatory research mechanism for the vulnerable communities. She mentioned with the help of her experience in deliberating and researching on such issues that policymakers and bureaucrats usually design spaces not in consultation with women or the vulnerable communities. The “othering” of their voices has been a long-lost call which is recently being given preference under research once again. As quoted in Reza Arjmand’s book “Public Urban Space, Gender and Segregation Women-only urban parks in Iran”- ‘Socially normative lines of division and dominance of values are shaped and reinforced by urban environments, and individuals find spaces in city venues to perform or express such identities.’ (2017), these are specifically effective for women. She spoke about the necessity of bridging the digital and linguistic divide which affects women and other vulnerable communities more than others. Participation should not be tokenistic, rather enhanced and through her work experience she was able to show through pictorial presentations how neighborhoods received safety checks, better lighting and safer, inclusive standards of public infrastructures – only because of proper gendered participation. Planning of policies and implementation both equally require the active involvement of these othered voices of the communities, in order to provide that right “nudge” for the appropriate utilization and execution of equitable planning. Ward level committees and local-level decentralized voices need to be amplified and delivered to the governmental organizations in order to have better results and active enactment of improved infrastructural services.
• Our next speaker was Sanyukta Mitra, who is a Theatre Practitioner and a Research Scholar, with an avid interest in the disciplines of Performance Arts and Cultural Studies. She has worked as a storyteller for Ekank’s This Day and is currently a storytelling teacher for Spark Studio. Her topic was – “Walking from Stage to Reality: How Women’s Work Remains Nameless Offstage”. She went to discuss about the concept of a Chaste woman and how that idea was generated during the Nationalist Movement in India. That was idealized and was something to look up to, followed diligently in order to become a ‘respected lady’ of the community. The Domains of Identity was something new discussed where she mentioned that the material domain was associated mainly with men, as they were the one’s imbued with rationality and intelligence – hence representing the public life; whereas women were the spiritual domain, focusing more on the inner realm of purity, sanctity – thereby representing the private appropriately. While men who adhered to western ideologies and ways of living were appreciated and celebrated, women would have to be limited to the spirit of nationalistic culture, which cannot be tainted – otherwise the honor of the nation would be tainted. According to Tanika Sarkar, ‘the woman’s body had to remain rooted in the shastras’ – thereby imposing a control over the very personalized space for a woman. Idealizing and stereotyping images of women impacted the way they were represented on stage – theatres, another public space which was contested through art and performativity. She went about to discuss about Noti Binodini who was ostracized and not given the due credit for opening a famous theatre, because through her roles she challenged the patriarchal ideals of modernity and nationalism. Victorian spaces had less tolerance for drag performances, yet the male stars performing female roles were highly appreciated and popularized, yet as actors they were shamed and demeaned. An important highlighting aspect comes out of the way spaces could be used to present an image of oneself which could be hated or celebrated depending on the importance of the mask you happen to don. If that mask is supposedly one challenging patriarchal heteronormativity – it becomes immediately “cancelled”. As long as you have agency in the sense of appeasing the mindset of others, you will always be celebrated, because your private does not determine your public – but your public determines your private – if you are an “othered” gender specifically.
• Our next presenter was Dr. Esha Chatterjee Bhattacharya, who is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Sociology) and also is the Head of Arts and Humanities at Anjaneya University, Raipur. Her Specialization lies in Gender Studies and Sociology of Science and Technology. She has been teaching since the last 8 years and has attended several conferences, while also simultaneously presenting papers with equal vigour. Her topic was “Women in IT and their Everyday Life”. She basically discussed about workplace as a public space becoming an agent of increasing the stereotype attached to women’s identity in IT industry. Her discussion brought out certain key agents of stereotypical appropriation like women being addressed as “he”; micro-aggressions like being discussed or heckled by male co-workers behind the female worker’s back, and further shamed for being “masculine and competitive” in order to compete with their male co-workers. The exact monologue by America Ferrera in Barbie the movie, released in 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2I6sBa2d-cP) , might give us a clear picture of how difficult it is to be a woman in a world dominated by the ‘expertise of men’. It ensued that women have to limit themselves in a world of paradoxes – constantly battling the urge to be either too understanding or too remorseless. Even when women do achieve a higher status in the social ladder of ranks in offices, they are expected to be acting just like male bosses yet respect the needs of their women employees. Women are easily made to feel self-isolated and isolated from their own fruits of labour, as we could relate to the concept of Alienation given by Karl Marx. This proves the issue of “glass-ceiling” being a prevalent factor till date and how women at work could find themselves to be conflicted with their space of work. Where your identity and its stereotype overlap with each other, it becomes difficult to provide an authenticity to your identity and simultaneously make space for yourself in work places – a major determiner of your identity in public spaces. In many ways, it has been seen women leaving their jobs due to the inability to maintain late hours, or inequitable transit facilities – these work cultures of considering women to be “feminine – hence incapable and a-technological” is an added factor of them not wanting to be a part of workforce and/or getting alienated from the process of work satisfaction.
• Our next keynote speaker was Dr. Nourhan Bassam, who has a professional background in architecture and urban design, and considers herself as a social entrepreneur, educator, feminist urbanist, city enthusiast and community lover. She has a PhD in placemaking focusing on inclusive communities, resilient cities and placemaking MSc in user centric design. Nourhan’s primary objective is to discover innovative concepts that foster community engagement and empowerment within the constructed surroundings. She operates a fantastic website which is a part of her Gendered City project – www.genderedcity.org. Her topic was “Data Gaps and Gendered Cities”. Her discussion touched upon some of the most crucial aspects of reimagining a feminist city – not just restricted to the standards of “developed cities”, but also that of “developing cities”. According to the fundamental starting statement made by her that cities are imagined and also designed for the benefit of “white, able-bodied men” who have utilized their privileged positions to renegotiate the ‘othered’ voices in their own ways. She highlighted on the aspect of collecting disaggregated data and the gendered gaps in data collection or analysis which leads to technical and unfortunate malfunctioning of policy implementation for the benefit of inclusivity – hence cancelling the whole point of encompassing intersectionality in problem solving within cities. The design gap has been a key concern in her whole discussion – starting from the designing of keyboards and pianos – to designing the built environment, i.e. the basic infrastructure. Gathering the sufficient gender-sensitive and gender-mainstreamed data helps in showing the true missing points in building safety concerns or establishing a sense of equality between both the sexes- instead of biasing technology, major decisions and products towards only one pre-meditated sex/gender category. She goes on to explain how cities could have a gender and that is never the “femme”, further explaining from an autoethnographic perspective that spaces in cities are structured and built around biases which are colored by one’s class status, racial identity, religion, place of birth, and of course their gender identity. Through this unique website mentioned above you would be able to explore the many voices of women throughout the world who have urged about their needs and necessities in order to feel safe, less violated, welcomed in public places/spaces. If you are interested in this, do participate in her project ‘how cities keep failing women’ – where people intimately confess about their ways of feeling uncomfortable about the spaces they navigate through. Her main agenda, very creatively showcased through her presentation, was to show how patriarchy could only be dismantled by feminism – whereby you include the voices of the ‘silenced’ ones in the policy advocacy stages and then implement necessary means of filling out the gaps which are usually unnoticed, unpaid and aggressively unseen.
• Our next presenter was Shangamitra Chakraborty, who is an MA student at Queen’s University under the Department of Sociology. She is currently working on a Comparative Study on the Stigmatization of the Family Members of Severe and Mildly Affected Mentally Ill Patients. Besides, she also takes keen interest in situations of Muslim Women in the Contemporary World. Her topic was “Realistic Experiences of Women sharing Public Space in India”. Her topic mainly covered all the key aspects of the different forms of experiences women have to go through in order to navigate the city, delving mainly into the socio-political aspect of one’s identity along with the parameter of gender . For her, experiences usually differed amongst women especially who have come from a separate city – challenges seem to increase a bit more for them. If we speak about women who regularly travel and migrate from rural to urban areas in search of odd jobs, things worsen for them, as they do not get the adequate infrastructural facilities to suffice themselves in unknown environments. (trigger warning) Women being molested or sexually harassed has become such a common thing and has been normalized to such a great extent that it is hardly paid heed to. Especially if you come from a different city, you feel uncomfortable from people’s stares, there is lack of adequate support in case of public transport services and precarious nature of fellow passengers makes women vulnerable to harmful situations or racial derogations. She went on to discuss about the various means of questioning the agency of women – like in workplaces, her choice of dressing, her posture in public places/spaces, her choice of occupation. There are even instances shown where in case of social gatherings or occasions women are made uncomfortable by poking them about their marriage and/or in case of festivities women usually avoid crowded ‘pandals’(temporarily constructed decorative structures put up during Durga Puja or Ganesh Festivals), where chances of them being molested remains quite high. She speaks of religious places being restrictive in nature because of the lack of sensitization and normalization of periods in the Indian society – causing a lot of repressions in workplaces as well. Women are even asked questions for attending extended office hours – as they are expected to prioritize the private sphere more which is where they ‘naturally’ belong. The concept of safe space is also something which she talks about which is a questionable practice in any public place and it is created according to differing subjectivities. Women having chances of being harassed while being pregnant and not considered maternity leaves has also been a major impact on pregnant individual’s participation in public spaces/places – something which Leslie Kern speaks in the book “Feminist City”. She even points out the factor of women having to be accompanied in order to feel safe and secured, otherwise victim blaming falls always on the part of women ‘not belonging in certain places at certain times’, which further restricts one’s autonomy in public places/spaces.
• Our last keynote speaker was Asmi Basu, who is an Assistant Professor of English at Dinabandhu Andrew’s Institute of Technology and Management, whilst also being an Active Founder-Member of “Gender Benders” (https://www.facebook.com/people/Gender-Benders/100079506156678/), which is an organization focusing on demystifying the myths around gender, sexuality and all the “hush-hush” topics of the society. Her topic was “Reclaiming Lost Spaces and Creating New Ones: A Journey of Unlearning”. She spoke on some of the fundamental issues concerning the origin point of this whole conversation – the impact of patriarchy in the minds of individuals including that of women. She establishes the importance of building a Sisterhood, which is a means of sharing the struggles of intersectionality for providing a better future for the upcoming generations. She establishes the importance of creating a safe space for students and then for the whole society at large – whereby the whole point of Gender Benders enters. She goes onto to explaining the aspect of establishing a space where students, women, men, young adults, queer people could express their experiences without feeling the need to over-explain or hide their emotions. The idea of arranging awareness-generation workshops was also something pointed out through her explanations which was done actively during the gender-sensitization sessions arranged by Gender Benders. She spoke about opening up on “hush-hush” stereotypical topics, because of which shame, chastity and honor or the burden of guarding a woman’s honor becomes crucial. She established that in a woman’s happy place – her home could become a major area of danger and uncertainty in case of her safety and vulnerability to being sexually assaulted. (trigger warning) She even speaks about the aspect of men’s harassment or cases of being sexually assaulted gets completely unnoticed because of a certain aspect of masculinity constructed by the society in order to appease the patriarchal order – exposing the ill-effects of biases produced to submerge the agencies of women. The idea of having self-pleasure like self-eroticism or masturbation being tabooed by the society for women is also an aspect of restricting personal pleasures, which could be a reason for avoiding the public scope of leisure for women. So, in order to challenge these orders that want to bind us down, she wanted to let women and the silenced have a chance to imagine an alternative place/space of belonging. Patriarchy limits potential and to unlearn these structures of oppression from the spaces of our mind could untether women from the shackles that does not allow women to equally participate in public spaces/places.
While these were broadly discussed in the whole workshop, there were interesting data being presented by speakers, like important service practices – Pink Police Patrol arranged by the Kerala police in India which promotes the presence of women police officers in public places in order to make public ordeals feel much more comfortable for women and children; the app called Safetipin (https://safetipin.com/about-our-company/ ) - which is a social organization aimed at making public spaces and places safer for women by mapping out safer streets. Sensory parks which allows for mainstreamed access to all types of people, irrespective of their disabilities and is also an interactive public space which allows for inclusive playing practices. While having discussions there were contradictions noted as well – where in some parts of India, women might feel comfortable around CCTV Cameras, some women in another part of a country might not. Even the utilities of resources or availability of resources like toilet infrastructures, transport facilities, street lighting or bus stands might vary within one city itself, because of the differential pooling of resources in planning practices – thereby showing the signs of selected gentrification. Travel writing as an integral part of studying place based experiences for women was also added from a participant, Dr Kamalika J. , who even mentioned the women in Sri Lanka claiming spaces in parks theoygg practices of Yoga to be something similar to the practices in India. Some of the fundamental takeaways are this :
All in all, it was a fruitful discussion and what came out of it was captured through some of the feedbacks, alongwith screencaps recorded by Shangamitra Chakraborty and Dr. Bhawna Shivan during the workshop would be showcased out here. All those who attended this workshop – I am eternally grateful to them.
Here are some of them -
Thank you so much. The next workshop would be happening soon, and if you would want to participate, present or collaborate for it, do write to me. Options for collaborating in this same topic, while having differing perspectives is also welcome, you can write to me or collaborate with on a piece.
Also another good news is attached to this one, I would be presenting on the findings of this workshop for a Conversation Lab Hosted by the ACD ( The Association of Collaborative Design) on the 29th of November- details of which would be shared very soon. Hoping to have you all there in order to engage with discussions and add on to the dialogues!
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