An Interview with Leslie Kern
Leslie Kern is a scholar based in the Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. Author of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, Kern uses her interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to understand the ways in which the way our built environment creates smoothness for some and obstacles for others, depending on the types of bodies we inhabit and responsibilities we hold. With an interest in, and experience of, activism, citizenship, and political mobilization, Kern impels us, as designers and as citizens, to observe, design, and build differently.
In the context of BB2040, Sasha Amaya and Adi cohen discuss the spatialization of practices of care labour, the drop-out rate of women design professionals, and how to move against gentrification.
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