In this episode, I talk with Anooradha Siddiqi a researcher interested in architectural history and theory; spatial politics; histories of migration and settlement; histories of land and partitions; modernism and modernity in Africa and South Asia; feminist practice and theory; black and brown consciousness theory; histories of heritage politics and craft practices; intellectual histories; critical cultural practices and production; collectivity, radical pedagogies, and mutual aid; past and present pedagogical practices in art and architecture.   

We talk about her latest projects Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement analyzes the history, visual rhetoric, and spatial politics of the Dadaab refugee camps in Northeastern Kenya.  as an epistemological vantage point in the African and Islamic world. On the work of Minnette de Silva and a Modern Architecture of the Past that engages the intellectual and heritage work of one of the first women to establish a professional architectural practice and an important cultural figure in the history of Ceylon/Sri Lanka. In this episode mostly discuss about pedagogies in architecture, feminist pedagogies, the controversial topic of the canon and, structuring courses that allow a diversity of knowledge, approaches, and perspectives.

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