Affecting change & improving outcomes by combining research and activism

2023

Horizon 2020 / european commission

Reducing gendered inequalities caused by COVID-19

Policy

Research

workshops

graphic design

publications

The COVID-19 pandemic was a health, humanitarian, economic and social crisis that affected us all. As a group, women were hit harder by the political responses than men; an inequality which increases depending on their class, age, or migration status.

RESISTIRÉ was a 30-month research project that aimed to find sustainable solutions to gendered inequalities and to strengthen societal resilience to future outbreaks.

Bauer Media Outdoor Belgium (formerly ClearChannel Belgium) was submitting a proposal to win the contract for outdoor advertising and informational signage outside metro stations in Brussels. They approached Yellow Window due to our long-standing relationship with the local operator (STIB/MIVB) and our experience in designing for the particular aesthetic environment of the city.

"I live with my two children aged 11 and 15 in a village. The Corona pandemic suddenly left me and my two children at home. I often had online meetings, and during breaks I tried to help the kids and coordinate the assistants' work."

"However, I feel I failed in all of this."

STUDY PARTICIPANT

Participative design & concrete
solutions via 'open studios'

The approach produced workshops in short cycles of 6-8 months after which actionable solutions are proposed in the form of recommendations to policy-makers (and other stakeholders); pilot projects (piloting social innovations) and research agendas to further increase knowledge on the impact of policies on inequalities.



On-line participation
leading to in-person activism

Participants are a mix of team members of the project and invited participants. Internal participants bring in the insights from the project activities, external participants bring in their expertise and creativity. The target is to have eight external participants in each Open Studio. They are identified because of their involvement with the theme of the Open Studio and can come from civil society organisations, can be policy-makers, researchers, user-experts or more creative profiles like artists.

Visuals of the on-line workshops

Visuals of the on-line workshops

The research outcomes were enriched by visuals that were used across reports.

The research outcomes were enriched by visuals that were used across reports.

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