Digital Walks: Womens Safety Walks
London Borough of Tower Halmets, 2023
- Project Title: The Digital Walks Series: Spatial Navigation & Lived Experience of urban spaces
- Role: Creator, Lead Designer, & Facilitator
The Digital Walks methodology is a community co-design tool that I developed to enable participants travel across and through a space, sharing their experiences and describing and barriers they encounter. The benefits of this approach are being able to capture the psychological impact, experiences and memories that inform and shape the day-to-day physical navigation of a city without having to be in the space.
This approach affords people the opportunity to tell stories, recall moments or provide opinions from a critical distance and is an online development of ‘The Documentary Series‘
In 2023, I advanced this framework for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets using the ‘digital walks’ as one strand of research to gather evidence for This Is For The Majority gender-inclusive design guidance.
The Women’s Safety Walks provided a highly safe, time-flexible, and trauma-informed context for women and girls to map the public realm.
