from the margins - perspectives on the built environment from the margins

In this episode, the last of this season, we talk with Shalini Agrawal an architect who has over 25 years of experience engaging communities of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic statuses in collaborative design workshops. We talk to her about her practice and how she brings equity and diversity to design, art, and architecture. We discuss with her her work on the Decolonial School at the California College of the Arts and her teachings on community engagement within the fields of design and architecture. 

At the end of this episode, we say goodbye to this season, and invite our listeners to give their feedback, and who would they like to hear on our next season. 

In this episode, we talk with Chris E. Vargas, a video maker & interdisciplinary artist whose work deploys humor and performance in conjunction with mainstream idioms to explore the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical & institutional memory and popular culture. We talked with him about his web-based trans/cisgender sitcom Falling In Love...with Chris and Greg, and Homotopia and its feature-length sequel Criminal Queers movies. We have an extensive conversation about MOTHA, the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, a critical and conceptual arts & hirstory institution highlighting the contributions of trans art to the cultural and political landscape.

In this episode, we talk with Josemar González, a Multi-Disciplinary Artist & Community Organizer with extensive experience in both the Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California regions. We discussed with about his work with various independent arts organizations, and how they collaborate to help educate using the arts as a means of communication. He talks about his interest in using video, photography, installation, audio, technology, and various creative mediums to document and do storytelling to deconstruct human experiences. 

In this episode we talk with Sarah L. Lopez about her interest in the history of the built environment. We talk about her book the The Remittance Landscape: The Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA and her upcoming book, which is interested in the history of the México/US border and immigration through the materials. Sarah Lopez discusses her interest in the built environment, her family and personal histories, and how it has informed her scholarship. 

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Border Land, Border Water, by C.J. Alvarez

In this episode, we talk with Mahdi Sabbagh, an architect and urbanist based in New York City, about his scholarship on Palestinian resistance and liberation. We discuss with him, how his work as a scholar and practice relate to each other. Mahdi talks to us about his publications and writing. 

In this episode, we talk with popular educator, writer, translator, and seed-saver Linda Quiquivix about her activism work. Her work within academia and activism, and how these inform each other.  We explore with her future "new worlds"  for communities and liberation movements based on Zapatista activism. We talk about the publications she is working on, and the work Grietas journal will be putting forward. 

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