The Necessary Complexities of Place-Based Learning: Teaching Planned Parenthood’s Mural Art in Rochester, New York

• In Event: Faculty Face the Post-Roe Campus: Strategies and Histories for Helping Students

Abstract

Place-based pedagogy can be an asset for reproductive justice teaching after Roe. Studying a place, like the location of a Planned Parenthood clinic, invites teaching the histories of structural inequality, racism in design, disparities in healthcare access, and activist conflict. In the case of our Rochester, NY Planned Parenthood, it is also a place to study how public art can develop reproductive justice imagination. Teaching public art that features reproductive healthcare reveals the limits of place-based learning assumptions. These limits can be productively addressed with students as we study how cities can best visualize reproductive justice in public spaces.

Presenter

• Jill Martins Swiencicki, St. John Fisher College