Group 3: ID91 - Brazil, IDA - Brazil, ID71 - Mauritius, ID53 - Brazil

In this group, we have four projects, three from Brazil, from the Latin America Region, and one from Mauritius, from Africa. The projects are related to the axes of accessibility, manufacturing, and renewable energy. All of them are concerned with attentive listening to women. In all of them, we find the issue of female bodies - how do they emerge as the locus of the project? In their outcomes, there are many reflections on them. Bodies mutilated by breast cancer, violence, or accidents; changes in bodies during climacteric [menopause]; the potency and strength of female bodies to perform tasks that are traditionally performed by men... these were topics discussed by the projects in this group.  Another important feature was the idea of prototyping. This important topic to the design field was discussed in many ways: in a participatory approach, with the creative process being carried out with women involved in the research, or by the researchers themselves, from the attentive listening of women affected by many kinds of biases, hostile environments, violence, and diseases.  It is important to mention that this program in general, and the four projects presented here, specifically, seek, in an exploratory way and through design, to reflect on epistemological approaches to what is called ‘gendered design’. There is still a lot to be done in the systematization of theory and methodologies that build more representative worlds for women. You can watch the project videos in this group on the GDS YouTube channel through this playlist: https://youtu.be/971IIDFLP6