The 2023 iphiGenia Gender Design Award “Volition” goes to Celina Grundmann and Lasse Mieruch for their project K-WIR – a Cross-media advisory concept and practical toolkit
In the school environment, learning about different gender identities and sexual diversity is mostly neglected in education. Celina Grundmann and Lasse Mieruch (Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Applied Sciences) want to change this and are focusing on raising awareness among future teachers.
The two design graduates convinced the jury of the Gender Design Award on all levels of the design process. The jury was deeply impressed by the comprehensive implementation and the design quality of the concept: well-founded research through appreciative participation of the target groups by means of sensitively designed surveys, qualitative interviews and testing of prototypes led to a comprehensive cross-media multi-level mediation concept. This resulted in a varied poster series, stickers for various uses, a knowledge game as well as a website with awareness-raising aids and know-how for student teachers on the topics of gender identity and gender diversity in everyday school life.
https://ausstellung.hfg-gmuend.de/s-2222/projekte/k-wir
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sex-gender-school-igdn/