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Developing course curriculums, and continued academic and professional engagements

Summary:

Punita Mehta goes into detail about her approach on developing a course curriculum, the learnings and insights that go into it, as well as the challenges and evolutions involved in the process. She notes it is equally important to know how to write a programme as well as how to communicate it to students and faculty members. She recalls an opportunity she received due to her work being observed by Krishnarao Jaisim, and shares comments on how your work can be perpetuated. She then shares her comments on creating foundation programmes which were unheard of at the time she started developing them. On the topic of being associated with NGOs she worked with, she mentions her engagements with support groups in detail and other insights she’s gained over the years by interacting with them. Talking about her continued work-life balance, she notes how all her learning through work engagements, teaching, and personal life have all come together in how she lives her life. Talking about this, she shares an anecdote about teaching her son a lesson about caring for one’s things, and veers off into the direction of talking about values, research, feminist practices, and urban planning and design. She speaks of how these things coalesce and how her insights led to a project that helped create a spatial change in the city of Baroda, in collaboration with several other activists, NGOs and people. They also worked on a seminar for the same.

Practitioner:

Punita Mehta

Interviewee:

Punita Mehta

Interviewer:

Ishita Shah

Duration:

00.23.09

Mode:

Offline

Date:

23/02/2022

Language:
English

Highlights:
(00:00:25:01) Developing a curriculum, (00:05:00:26) NGO Support groups, (00:09:43:17) People-oriented approach, (00:13:21:21) Architectural research rooted in feminism, (00:16:46:06) Survey on women's safety on streets