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  • Design research Blog
CATALINA ALZATE


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These illustrations were commissioned by the Feminist Internet Research Network for their meta-research report.


The illustrations respond to 5 key themes in Feminist Research on the Internet: 1/ Care, 2/ Intersectionality, 3/ Positionality, 4/ Doing research in Covid and 5/ Reflexivity

​Broadly, the publication explores how current methods and approaches to research on the Internet, do not sufficiently account for feminist thinking around dynamics of power, politics of location, relationship with participants and access to digital data, and offers theoretical and practical advise for feminist researchers to look at and engage with internet issues.

The report can be accessed here: https://www.apc.org/en/node/38022/



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This series of collage and scan-art pieces explore the female passivity and docility in the advertisement of very expensive objects. The original images belong to the magazine of one the most elitist malls in Dallas, Texas, collected over three years. My interventions in the images focus on the gaze of the models, "a dead gaze", waiting for the spectator to react, and buy. 

This work was exhibited at Site 131 in Dallas, Texas.


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​This series of illustrations are inspired in the notion of Feminist Politics of Research on the Internet, commissioned for an editorial in the GenderIT.org website.

You can read all the articles here:
https://www.genderit.org/edition/all-you-walk-get-there-feminist-reflections-methodology-ethics-and-access-research





This series of illustrations are part of the design and layout of a report on 'Monitoring and Evaluating Theory of Change of Women's Funds'.
This work was commissioned by Prospera, International Network of Women's Funds.

​The illustrations on the right are showcased as independent pieces as well as in the context of the report.






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These are a series of provocations for thinking about technology design or "future making", ranging from lived experiences of online violence, to larger sociopolitical contexts where technologies operate.

The pieces combine hand-made and digital illustration and texturing, as well as animation.







These digital collages are a commentary on strategies employed by the TV industry for depicting Islam, in ways that stereotype notions of gender, class, religion, and affirm a supposed superiority of the West.
The collages refer specifically to the telenovela El Clon


​To learn more about each piece click here

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