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Caregiving as Method: Care,,,
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#,Question,Asker Name,Answer(s)
1,"All of your work touches on architectural objects that could be classified as vernacular, but that is not at all the conceptual frame you bring to the work. I was wondering if you could reflect on the limitations of categories of like ‘vernacular architecture’ and how you situate building practices within your larger projects.",Elizabeth Keslacy,
2,"Another thought that comes to mind in response to these presentations is the notion of community engagement. In American universities at least, community engaged pedagogy and scholarship has become an important aspect of scholarly practice, and in schools of architecture this most often manifests itself as the design-build studio. But what I see here might be descibed as “community-engaged history.” Do you think of it like that, and what new methods does community engagement require of historians?",Elizabeth Keslacy,"Great questions - I think the discipline of public history offers many exemplary relationships between universities and neighboring communities.  In terms of urban/architectural  history, I would look to Alison Isenberg, Mary Corbin Sies, and Arijit Sen"
3,"Thank you all so much for your presentations. My question concerns narrative voice, it is a question for anyone who wishes to respond. Does explicit recognition of your own position in your research - as a caregiver working with caregivers - does this acknowledgement of methodological position influence your approach to narrative voice in your writing? Or do you tend to hold method and narrative voicing apart, or…? Thank you for your thoughts on this.",Margot Lystra,
4,"Every household or subgroup approaches the idea of care quite  differently. All three of your presentations were based on experiences with very different kind of community groups and spaces. So, how would you respond to the concept of 'care' which emerges and differentiates itself from one cultural group to another, rather it differs from one household to another? Would a micro-understanding of care in the socio-cultural and economic context affect or complicate the act of knowledge production? If yes, then are we equipped as architectural historians to engage with such personal politics?",I S,
5,"Excuse me, that my name is not correctly visible.
Ishita here.",I S,
6,Prof. Okoye mentioned this book about Bamana mud cloth by Sarah Brett Smith : https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-us/books/sarah-brett-smith/silence-of-women-bamana-mud-cloths/9788874396702,CARLA YANNI,
7,"I am curious about a reverse question, which Itohan has just spoken to: do you find your experience of caring in the ways you named—as a mother, daughter, as part of a kinship network—meaningfully altered by your research and your interlocutors, and do you imagine new forms of scholarship and methodologies that can hold both experiences together, as doubly resonant and co-informative experiences of history, space, and selfhood? As Kush said so beautifully, caring across communities of difference presents an opportunity to remake the self, I wonder, too, how a certain approach to scholarship and collaboration (‘writing with’ using Anoo’s powerful phrase) can reshape or deepen our experiences of caring, being cared for, or alternatively heal the absence of care.",Hollyamber Kennedy,"I’m curious about the role of first hand experience and duration in your sites (and relationships) of study. It seems that in some ways, this also about building embodied knowledge (and embodied care)  as another way of knowing place and people’s relationships within them."