University, Gender, and Sustainability: design as a practice of resistance and belonging
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https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2025.181.06Abstract
This article proposes a critical analysis of the university Anthropocene based on the trajectory of a student enrolled in STEM programs who, after failing to find sustainable conditions for permanence, migrates to the field of design. Personal experience is employed as a critical method to expose the social unsustainability of academic environments structured around paradigms of exclusion. Guided by intersectional and decolonial perspectives, the research articulates gender, sustainability, and political design, arguing that the permanence of dissident bodies in higher education constitutes a vital indicator of social sustainability.
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