Casualy looking into and infographics book, I came upon some examples of interventions that look very interesting.
This excersice of visualizing where people feel different emotions and how the move in the body. I find fascinating the idea of overlaping the different drawings so you can have an idea where the “average” is.
2. This referent of a game designed for people to play the role of a desginer understanding the different personas they are designing for. I havent been able to find more about it.
Societies that dont respect womens anger, don’t respect women.
I saw this TedTalk and I thought it was so powerful, because I do feel that in Colombia I wasnt allowed to be angry most of the times. I think that this feeling has lead many of my considerations during my research, and it has been one great biase of mine. I am angry and so everyone else should be angry? It doesn’t seem very fair, but at the same time it isn’t fair that I’m angry either. So how can we get it right?
Update: I sent and email to Soraya wanting to chat with her and I realized too late that her answer was in my spam. I froze becuase I didn’t really know what to ask her and so, I haven’t answered her back 🙁
At the moment, I’m trying to find someone to collaborate with for my workshop at the Artivism Festival. I’ve had the chance to interview two different people, both of whom could be very interesting additions to the project. The one I’m most excited about is Asma, the director of the East End Women’s Museum. She is absolutely brilliant, and I think the museum’s mission aligns closely with my personal interests.
I really like the idea of collaboration. Initially, I felt a bit conflicted because this project felt very personal, like something I needed to do on my own. However, I now believe it will be much richer with the perspectives of experts and having someone who could confront me about the gaps I have in my ideas.
Thinking about how I could further expand my “Flag the Gap” project, I came up with the another idea of doing an intervention at the festival. I was inspired by an installation at the Olympics where people were asked, “What is the hardest challenge you have overcome?” and they wrote their responses on gold medals.
For my intervention, I could create an interactive stand where I leave a bunch of red flags and pose an open question like:
“What is the biggest sexist and misogynistic red flag in our environment that we have normalized? What gender gap we have normalized in our evironmet?”
On another table, I could add green flags for positive actions or spaces that promote equality or a radical thinking.
This way, participants can engage by both identifying problematic areas and celebrating the spaces that are making progress.
During the induction to being part of the Skaped Team (I applied to work with them to organize the Artvisim Festival), I was introduced to some projects that are related to artivism and have given me a little bit of inspiration. Also, some others I’ve found them through research.
All of them are different ways of doing brilliant interventions!
The Museum of Broken Relationships – A physical and online museum exhibiting personal objects donated by people worldwide to represent and process the end of relationships, capturing universal emotions of love and loss.
Catcalls of New York – A social art project where instances of street harassment are chalked verbatim on sidewalks where they occurred, raising awareness of gender-based harassment and empowering those who’ve experienced it.
Empathy Museum – An interactive museum that hosts installations like “A Mile in My Shoes,” where visitors can literally walk in someone else’s shoes and listen to personal stories, fostering empathy and understanding.
The Pansy Project – Artist Paul Harfleet plants pansies at sites of homophobic abuse, symbolizing resilience and remembrance, while raising awareness of LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Poetry for Passers-by – A public art initiative where poems are displayed in urban spaces to surprise, inspire, and offer a moment of reflection to people passing through everyday city life.
Continuing my secondary research, I found the book Extra Bold, which is kind of an accessible guide that reimagines design education through a feminist and inclusive lens. The visuals and descriptions are very clear and are some great examples of what I would like to approach.
The image of the modern mand and his modern bubbles was particulary shocking for me and describes precisely my area of focus of research, which is the visualization of the reference man that determines our whole world. Everything is designed for this person, who represents so little in compared to everyone else.
