I Stood Up to Violence: Making it Public

我们的项目源于2014年2月在印度艾哈迈达巴德的国家设计研究院（NID）举办的一个研讨会，该研讨会汇集了印度和英国的学者和设计师，共同对“未来城市”的概念做出回应。印度未来面临许多挑战，特别是在城市地区，紧迫的社会和环境问题并存。在国家发展研究所，研究小组试图研究对妇女的暴力和环境退化问题，这些问题与“现在的城市”和“未来的城市”都有关。例如，众所周知，气候变化加剧了现有的不平等现象，特别是在城市地区，导致过度拥挤、缺乏隐私以及常规生活和生计模式的崩溃；所有这些都可能导致社会混乱的爆发。由于妇女在世界最贫穷人口中所占比例最大，她们受这些变化的影响最大，这些变化往往表现为性别虐待。在印度的背景下，这些系统和经济问题因特定的文化诱因而加剧，包括荣誉犯罪和其他具有非官方法律地位的习俗和信仰。我们的研究询问了印度和英国的联合研究项目如何通过创新的设计、艺术品和活动，让这些问题变得可见，并让人们参与到关于这些问题的对话中来，从而对这些问题做出深思熟虑的回应。研究在这方面很重要，因为它表明艺术和设计的作用方式不仅仅是生产令人愉悦的物品、衣服或图像（尽管这些东西很重要），而是可以改变我们周围的社会和生态环境。作品将在伦敦、艾哈迈达巴德和新德里由专门从事公共空间设计的学者、艺术家、设计师和建筑师组成的国际团队制作。我们将制作一些项目，包括：a。反映和代表受影响社区的经历和故事以及与之相关的统计数据的视觉、图表和插图。b.从印度公众那里收集的一系列街头服饰。我们打算把这项工作带回街头，使整理好的故事/数据与他们的受众之间建立联系。研究建立一个网络平台，供妇女分享和记录性别暴力的经历，也可作为进一步工作和合作的资料档案。在实质性的技术设计过程开始之前，在这个研究阶段，我们设想制作一份报告，而不是一个完整的数字交付，例如，报告将包括对用户需求（包括道德问题）和技术规范的研究。d.项目网站将记录研究，并作为发布项目期间产生的艺术和设计的平台，并将免费向公众开放。同样，我们将通过博客记录我们的工作实践，使人们能够关注和参与研究的进展。项目期间产生的手工制品、设计和创意将于2014年11月在新德里的UNBOX节上展出，让观众亲身体验作品。在项目结束时，我们打算寻求对这项工作的进一步支持，以使其以持续的方式发展，并巩固印度和英国参与者之间的关系。

Summary of researchOur project has developed from a workshop held at the National Institute of Design (NID), in Ahmedabad, India in February 2014, that bought together Indian and UK-based academics and designers to develop joint responses to the idea of 'the future city'. India faces a number of future challenges particularly in urban areas where pressing social and environmental problems co-exist. At NID the research group sought to engage with problems of violence against women and environmental degradation, issues relevant both to 'now cities' and 'future cities'. For example it is known that climate change amplifies existing inequalities particularly in city locales, leading to overcrowding, lack of privacy and the collapse of regular routines and livelihood patterns; all these can result in outbreaks of social disorder. As women constitute the largest percentage of the world's poorest people, they are most affected by these changes which often manifest as gendered abuse. In the Indian context these systemic and economic issues are exacerbated by specific cultural triggers including honour crimes and other customs and beliefs that take the status of unofficial law.Our research asks how a joint Indian-UK research project can develop considered responses to these matters through production of innovative designs, artworks and events that make these issues visible and engage people in conversation about them. Research is important in this respect as it shows that art and design can function in ways that aren't simply about the production of pleasing objects, clothes or images (important though these things are), but can act to transform the social and ecological environment around us. Work will be produced in London, Ahmedabad and New Delhi by an international team consisting of academics, artists, designers and architects with specialisms in design for public space. We will produce a number of projects including:a. Visuals, diagrams and illustrations reflecting and representing the experiences and stories of affected communities and the statistics related to them. b. A range of street attire informed by stories collected from members of the Indian public. We intend to take this work back to the streets enabling a connection between collated stories/data and the audiences they were derived from.c. Research into a web platform for women to share and document experiences of gendered violence that can also be employed as an archive of material for further work and collaboration. Before a substantive technological design process is initiated, at this stage of research we envisage production of a report rather than a fully fledged digital deliverable, e.g. the report will consist of research into user needs (including ethical issues) and a technical specification. d.A project website will document research and act as a platform to publish art and design produced during the project which will be made freely available to the public. Similarly we will document our working practices via the blog to enable people to follow and engage with research as it progresses. Artefacts, designs and ideas produced during the project will be exhibited at the UNBOX Festival in New Delhi in November 2014, enabling audiences first hand experience of work. At project end we intend to seek out further support for this work that will see it evolve in a sustained manner and cement relationships between Indian and UK participants.