{"id":708,"date":"2020-07-26T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feministssoa.group.shef.ac.uk\/?p=708"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:22:11","slug":"testimonial-rachel-sara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Interview Rachel Sara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/otSa9Y68SxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">In this short interview, <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Rachel Sara<\/strong> gives her testimonial about the feminist pedagogy at SSoA, the approach at the time she was studying there and the legacy it had in her teaching practice. In addition, she talks about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=1134\" target=\"_blank\">The Pink book<\/a>, the current situation of architectural education in its relation to feminism, and the main impacts of feminist pedagogy in students\u2019 future practice. Towards the end of the interview, Rachel tells us how she imagines a future feminist school of architecture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">Dr <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Rachel Sara<\/strong> is Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture at Birmingham City University. She undertook her architectural studies at Sheffield School of Architecture, finishing her PhD in 2004, which explores the studio and live projects in the context of education theory and praxis, with a theoretical and methodological feminist approach. During the course of her PhD, she published <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=1134\" target=\"_blank\">The Pink book<\/a> in 2002, a feminist manifesto for architectural education. Sara\u2019s research interests explores \u2018other\u2019 forms of architecture and pedagogy, specifically examining architecture without architects, the relationship between architecture and dance, feminist pedagogy and hands-on, community based architectural activism, with a range of publications related to these topics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-sm-dark-primary-background-color has-sm-dark-primary-color is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:79px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Sara is Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture at Birmingham City University. She undertook her architectural studies at Sheffield School of Architecture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-interviews-2","tag-pedagogy","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}