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Towards a Kinder Public is the podcast of Kinderpublic, an interdisciplinary design consultancy. We are working to create kinder public space: more inclusive, accessible, equitable, and sustainable. Interviewing experts from a variety of roles and backgrounds, from architects, conservationists, equity consultants, scientists, to disability advocates, we discover the meaningful role that each of us can play in the work of making things better. The first step is becoming aware of the experiences of the people around us - this podcast tells those stories. Host and Producer: Cevan Castle. Cover Art: Annie Chen. Learn more about our work at www.kinderpublic.com. Contact us at podcast@kinderpublic.com.

  1. 2024-03-27

    The Impact of the Down Syndrome Inclusive Education Guidelines, with Emily Mondschein, GiGi’s Playhouse Buffalo NY, Pt.4

    Emily Mondschein, Executive Director at GiGi’s Playhouse Buffalo, and member of the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) and Down Syndrome Education International (DSEI) inclusive education working group, explains the application and impact of an educational profile and creating a disability category for Down syndrome: -Some benefits of and motivations to use the Down Syndrome: Guidelines for Inclusive Education document; -How inclusion for children with Down syndrome can help with differentiation and learning achievement for all students;  -The critical importance of using evidence-based, research-based information to form educational and life expectations for individuals with Down syndrome;   -How the exclusion of disabled individuals from the earliest stages of education may be related to other instances of exclusion in our communities. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    26 min

  2. 2024-03-19

    Creating the Down Syndrome Inclusive Education Guidelines with Emily Mondschein of GiGi’s Playhouse, Buffalo NY, Pt.3

    What does inclusion mean, in the education setting? Is there data that supports inclusive education for individuals with Down syndrome? Emily Mondschein, Executive Director at GiGi’s Playhouse Buffalo, and member of the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) and Down Syndrome Education International (DSEI) inclusive education working group, explains the story behind the first inclusive education document for Down syndrome in the United States, which she also presented to the United States Congress. We discuss: -Why inclusion in the education setting is particularly important and powerful for learners with Down syndrome; -How Emily became acquainted with Professor Sue Buckley (UK), the foremost international expert on learning, literacy, and language for individuals with Down syndrome; -The NDSS and DSEI working group’s adaptation of the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Down Syndrome (APPDSG 2012) inclusion guidelines for the United States; -How the Down Syndrome: Guidelines for Inclusive Education document can be used on the federal, state, county, school district, classroom, and family levels; -The profound and measurable ways that inclusion benefits typically developing students and the entire community. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    31 min

  3. 2024-03-12

    Steps to Inclusion for Individuals with Down Syndrome, with Emily Mondschein, Executive Director, GiGi’s Playhouse Buffalo NY, Pt.2

    Down syndrome is the most common of the chromosomal disorders, and yet, it is often the subject of misinformation and openly discriminatory policies. Our discussion with Emily Mondschein, Executive Director at GiGi’s Playhouse Buffalo, continues as she shares more strategies for disability inclusion. We discuss: -How medical practitioners can play a significant role in changing discriminatory attitudes towards individuals with Down syndrome; -The crucial role that early and elementary education can perform to radically improve inclusion for all disabled and neurodiverse individuals; -Why updated guidance on the needs of individuals with Down syndrome is an essential component of inclusion; -A call to doctors, teachers, administrators, and parents to help achieve equitable access of public space for disabled individuals. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    30 min

  4. 2024-03-05

    How Down Syndrome is Excluded from Disability Inclusion, with Emily Mondschein, Executive Director, Gigi’s Playhouse Buffalo, Pt.1

    Emily Mondschein, Executive Director at Gigi’s Playhouse Buffalo, joins us to talk about her urgent and trailblazing work in disability inclusion. She shares how her experiences as a special education teacher, and later, parent of a child with Down syndrome, led to her national advocacy work for equitable access to education for the Down syndrome community. In Part 1 of our 4-part interview, we discuss: -How the fight against disability exclusion and misinformation begins during pregnancy, and what this reveals about the culture of obstetrics and women’s medicine; -The ways that our limited understanding of multiple disabilities prevents us from providing effective supports to individuals with Down syndrome; -Why access to education and literacy for the disability community is limited by a lack of educational models for true inclusion; -Why discrimination against the Down syndrome community is also discrimination against the Autism, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Blind and Low Vision, and other disability communities; -How Gigi’s Playhouse, a dedicated space for the Down syndrome community, works as a bridge for improved community inclusion and disability awareness. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    29 min

  5. 2024-02-27

    Advocacy How-To When Cultural Short-Sightedness is Built into the Architecture & Operations of Public Space, with Cultural ReProducers Christa Donner & Selina Trepp, Pt.3

    In this final episode of our interview with US-based artists Christa Donner and Selina Trepp of Cultural ReProducers, we discuss if cultural short-sightedness is a factor in architectural design and the operation of public space? -The greater significance and meaning of the perspective of parents; -Why the inclusion of children is both a cultural and a political position that positively impacts everyone; -Why archives are an important component in social change; -Structural and architectural changes we should be prioritizing; -Practical advice on effective advocacy in our own spaces and communities. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    36 min

  6. 2024-02-20

    Caregiving as Public Infrastructure: Improving Inclusion for Children & Families, with Cultural Reproducers Christa Donner & Selina Trepp, Pt.2

    US-based artists Christa Donner and Selina Trepp share further insights on the improved inclusion of children and families. Through Cultural ReProducers, a creative platform initiated by Christa Donner, they devised a Childcare Supported Event Series that allowed artist-parents to maintain professional engagement in the art world. We discuss: -Why the inclusion of children is a particularly complicated topic; -Selina’s personal experience of workplace discrimination as a pregnant person in the art world; -How the typical view of children in the U.S. diverges from the view held by many other parts of the world; -Whether caregiving should be considered a personal responsibility or an element of public infrastructure. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    37 min

  7. 2024-02-13

    Parenthood, Gender Bias, & Maintaining Engagement in the Art World, with Cultural ReProducers, Christa Donner & Selina Trepp Pt1

    US-based artists Christa Donner and Selina Trepp discuss their collaborative work on the problem of professional inclusion for artists and cultural workers who are also parents. Through Cultural ReProducers, a creative platform initiated by Christa Donner, they experimented and devised a Childcare Supported Event Series that allowed artist-parents to maintain professional engagement in the art world. We learn: -What challenges cultural workers face in continuing their professional engagement with the art world; -How these challenges may be exacerbated by gendered expectations around caregiving and the labor of raising children; -The experience that made Christa and Selina realize that a clear mission statement was a critical first step to introduce the project to cultural institutions; -Key technical details about the model- including space requirements, timing, staffing, and programming info- that are necessary for improved professional inclusion of parents. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    34 min

  8. 2023-11-28

    Walking the Land: the importance of small-scale and family farms with Reverend Peaches Gillette,Pt2

    Walking the Land: A Loving Tribute to Family Farms is a new book of watercolor paintings, poetic reflections, and interviews with small and family farmers in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. In Part 2 of our interview, Reverend Gillette speaks further about her collaborative work with watercolorist Tommy Beers, their experiences in visiting the small-scale regional farms, and the lessons that she took away from their deeper look at the farms in the book. Reverend Gillette shares: -How families and children can talk about food, to bring a deeper level of awareness and gratitude of its value; -How Reverend Gillette’s friendship with a sunflower farmer changed her understanding of the many steps of producing flowers and seeds; -How farms and food provide opportunities for growth of consciousness; -A reading of two poems in Walking the Land, and their significance to the author. (See Episode Website link below for a transcript, YouTube episode with captioning, background information and links.) About Us Follow Us On Instagram If you would like to share your thoughts with us, suggestions for future episodes or if you’re interested in joining us as a guest, please contact us as we would welcome your contributions. Contact Us: podcast@kinderpublic.com

    28 min
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Towards a Kinder Public is the podcast of Kinderpublic, an interdisciplinary design consultancy. We are working to create kinder public space: more inclusive, accessible, equitable, and sustainable. Interviewing experts from a variety of roles and backgrounds, from architects, conservationists, equity consultants, scientists, to disability advocates, we discover the meaningful role that each of us can play in the work of making things better. The first step is becoming aware of the experiences of the people around us - this podcast tells those stories. Host and Producer: Cevan Castle. Cover Art: Annie Chen. Learn more about our work at www.kinderpublic.com. Contact us at podcast@kinderpublic.com.

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  • Creator
    Kinderpublic
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2023 Kinderpublic
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