We are pleased to invite you to the first Feminist Spatial Practice Share on Wednesday September 27th from 12:00pm-1:00pm ET.

We have initiated the online Practice Share as a way to celebrate feminist spatial practices and connect with likeminded practitioners across the globe. In the first session Ishita Shah and bags (Cynthia Deng and Elif Erez) are invited to present their practice, after which we will have a collective conversation mediated by Renske Maria van Dam.

Feel free to share this invitation, everybody is welcome. We are looking forward to meeting you online!

bags
bags is a collaborative spatial practice and blobby design collective - we operate at multiple scales and at the intersection of many boundaries, spatial, ecological, and disciplinary. bags is not an acronym, though you could call it “bajillion aggregate galaxy scenarios” if you’d like. bags comes from Ursula LeGuin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which celebrates the bag as holder of many worlds and nonlinear narratives. Currently, bags contains Cynthia Deng and Elif Erez, hailing from New Haven and Istanbul respectively. Cynthia is an architecture faculty member at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Querétaro, and Elif is a registered architect and a designer at Studio Gang Architects in New York City. Our collective work spans installations, stories, workshops, and speculative infrastructures. Borrowing LeGuin’s words, “still there are seeds to be gathered, and room in the bag[s] of stars.”

Ishita Shah
Trained as a designer and historian, Ishita Shah's practice is rooted at the intersection of cultural preservation, creative interpretation, and community engagement, under the aegis of a collective Curating for Culture. The primary thematic interests include South Asia/India in the archive, beyond the institutional narratives, empowering the local, life in the day of an archivist, and the socio-politics of underrepresented narratives in popular histories. Curating for Culture has curated a range of activities from incubation programs, to site-based learning experiences, publications, exhibitions, and open dialogues in collaboration with different organizations and/or practitioners.