How can design deal with conflicts and dissonances?
For example, the dilemmas posed by controversial issues, peace and war, the quiet coexistence and the restless activisms, the consensus-seeking and the thought-provoking stances?
Re-Viewing the Gaze
Unveiling Polarized Views on Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
TEAM
Jo Flint
CONTEXT
MA Graphic Design and Visualisation
2024
PROFESSORS
Simon Downs
Alis Iacob
Re-Viewing the Gaze challenges the polarized constructions of gender and identity, by critiquing expected societal norms and biases. Employing an interactive exhibition design, the cognitive tension between opposing worldviews is explored. This provokes viewers to rethink their rigid expectations, through facilitated visual and narrative means. The project asks viewers to actively shift their gaze, revealing the cognitive dissonance which would usually blind them to alternative thought.
