Researching and Addressing Gender-Based Violence through Co-Creative and Socially Engaged Methods
Cities are experienced in many diverse ways dependent on factors such as urban design, infrastructure, historical context, social and cultural dynamics as well as economic factors and the patterns of consumption. These in turn create urban rhythms of movement and even street lighting, noise, smells and visibility. The way all these elements are organized or disorganized generates imaginaries or narratives that condition our experience of the streets. This conditioning is intersectional as it relates to gender, race, class, sexuality, body ableness and is thus fundamentally intersectional. Strategies like active use of spaces, or collective action can help to raise awareness, create transformative narratives and practices of resistance against this conditioning of gender-based violence.
For whom?
Students from Radboud University, ArtEZ University of the Applied Arts and Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (HAN) interested in studying the gendered dynamics of public spaces, and co-creative knowledge production
What are you going to do?
- Discuss literature on gender-based violence, public space and intersectionality.
- Learn about embodiment as a way of relating and reflecting about space.
- Produce counter cartographies collect data/knowledge about a territory.
- Use narrative inquiry into the gendered dynamics of public space.
- Co-design and participate in a creative public intervention.
- Contribute to the documentation and reflection on the process of co-creative knowledge production in a digital publication.
What will you learn?
You will learn creative methods to analyze urban spaces from an intersectional perspective, allowing for a broader understanding of the differentiated experiences shaped by urban spaces. You will also gain knowledge on designing and researching a socially engaged intervention that amplifies other ways of re-signifying public spaces.