Note: This poster was accepted to be presented at the NORDES 2017 Conference in Oslo, Norway; however due to financial constraints and the lack of alternatives offered by the conference itself, the authors had to unfortunately withdraw their submission. We at Decolonising Design stand in solidarity with their effort, and are honoured to publish their contribution in our platform.
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1/ Introduction: context, issues
This poster aims at presenting and explaining the graphic design project imagined to present an immersive practice-based research mission run to investigate Gynepunk, a DITO/DIWO-based [1] healthcare project, reclaiming the decolonization of gynecology. This project is run in the catalan third-place (Oldenburg, 1989; Burret, 2017) [2] CaLaFou.
This short-term research was part of the transdisciplinary research project investigating third-places called « Expérience Tiers-Lieux » (The Third-Place Experiment) and partly based on short & long-term practice-based immersions within various (bio)hacker spaces, maker spaces, fablabs, etc.
The results of this year-long experiment were exhibited during the Biennale Internationale Design 2017, as the Fork The World exhibition (fig.1).
Fork The World was both an open-source exhibition, and a shared reflexive space discussing alternative forms of governmentality, agency, knowledge, politics, identities, etc (Peyricot, 2017).
Presenting the Gynepunk project in this context raised issues that the authors tried to outline and fix through visual design, among which:
- taking into account the various public of the event;
- respecting the collective political commitment of the curatorial team while articulating this specific project to a network of heterogenous (and sometimes adversarial) projects and standpoints;
- respecting and highlighting the political specificity and integrity of the Gynepunk project, to let a certain friction emerge ; these three dynamics seeming divergent.
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