Using Design to Generate Change: Harnessing the Student Voice to Prevent Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment

Using Design to Generate Change: Harnessing the Student Voice to Prevent Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment

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Respect.Now.Always.is an Australia-wide campaign to address and eliminate sexual assault and harassment within universities.

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has taken a proactive stance and established a Student Consultative Group and a Senior Working Group to address this issue.UTS Design Innovation Research Centre (DI:rc) was engaged to understand diverse UTS student perspectives on sexual violence and identify student-centred opportunities for prevention and support.Using a participatory design research approach, DI:rc developed insights on UTS student experiences Patent look tendon boots in interacting with UTS.Rather than being simple user-centred research interactions, these engagements reframed the interaction with students as participatory experiences where they were given an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue which strengthened relationships within the UTS community and provided an opportunity for perspectives to shift on this topic.

This unique design research approach Axxess DSP T-Harness was made possible through careful work establishing trust with senior stakeholders, and leads the way for more novel activations to engage the community in preventing sexual assault and harassment.