Nearby: Enkarni Gómez
I am Enkarni Gómez Genua and I work at the Mining School of the University of the Basque Country. I was born in San Sebastián and my work focuses on science, gender and technology.
On the one hand I teach physics at the UPV/EHU Barakaldo mining school and on the other hand I work in the area of science technology and gender. The last two projects, the two we have, a work that we call techno-science and feminism on the one hand, and an exhibition about women engineers, inventors and architects on the other. In this exhibition we have tried to rescue women who have worked in the art so to speak. They did not have legal entities and could not patent on their behalf, so they had to patent works on behalf of a man and it is therefore difficult to rescue what women have done in the technical field. Well, I studied industrial engineering first and then
I did my doctorate in materials engineering. When I was writing my thesis, 1995.urtean, some concrete things happened to me that have marked a milestone for me and appeared as
questions. A question was posed by my mother and does this zen add beauty to the world?
Another question arose when I was in Guatemala with the indigenous people in the refugee camps and was what work do you do? And a third question arose when writing the thesis, what is the use of this material? These three questions made me unable to tell the truth at that time and with these questions I could not live in peace with the answer unfortunately for me, at least it did not correspond to what I lived ideologically and emotionally. Our work serves above all to reflect, this is what our work is most critical of; critical of the world, of how it is divided, of what systems we
have. And the scientists also know what responsibilities we have there, what our work really is and then we criticize or at least we want to call for reflection and we want to call for change. Also specifically, we want to denounce the injustices that have been committed with women in the field of science and technology and the means we use for this are, on the one hand, the rescue work as I have said and, on the other hand, art and science as different ways of looking at the world.
I don’t remember how I imagined myself as a child, so I wouldn’t say it was vocational. Teaching yes, I feel teaching as something vocational. Right now I live my work as a hobby, since I met this field in the field of gender and science and technology and the innovations that we are also doing with art, now I feel more like a hobby.
Especially as a scientist and engineer, so to speak, I don’t feel very typical. I think the path I have taken has been extraordinary, I have not followed an orthodox path and that has its positive aspects. One is that I have chosen what I wanted, and it has been mainly that I am now able to answer these three questions that I mentioned earlier in a different way, that is, what work you do, what it is for and whether or not it adds beauty to the world. Right now I’m more relaxed with the answer, before I felt like a cleavage and now I feel something more complete. One of those, on the other hand, I claim myself as a feminist scientist, that implies a bad thing and it is... science has a halo of objectivity and neutrality. You claim to be a feminist. Where is your subjectivity, where are you doing science and that somehow makes science less valued in the community. I believe that all scientists have a surname, some will know what surname they have, others may not, but we all have a surname and I say mine clearly.
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