Speculative Design: A tool to address women’s safety in the public environment.
Third Year Final Project.
My project explores the relationship between the public environment and women’s safety, focusing largely on gender-based public sexual harassment. I developed a process of engagement to produce wild, speculative outputs that allow for different types of discussions. My hope is that these discussions will bring about ideas and alterations to the current social environment that would ultimately create a safer public environment for women. From carrying out this process, I have designed a range of outputs that span different forms to spark conversations, and each output resembles a different concern raised by separate women. My hope is that by addressing the issue from a range of different angles, this project will encourage conversations that can influence policy change, employment laws, architectural developments and all other areas where the issue of women’s safety permeates our society.