INSTALLATIONS
We create interactive installations in public spaces to bring lived experiences of gendered violence into everyday environments. These installations allow passers-by to reflect, share, and imagine safer, more inclusive spaces for everyone. Using video, animation, creative captions, and community voices, our installations make invisible experiences visible, encouraging audiences to think differently about public space and share their own ideas.
GET
HOME
SAFE
Get Home Safe is an audiovisual installation that platforms women and girls’ hopes and dreams for safer public spaces. It invites passers-by to share their own experiences of travelling home, and reimagine the future of safety on public transport.
The installation was piloted at University of Birmingham Station during Welcome Week. It was built through focus group research with local young women & gender-marginalised people.
An anonymous feedback box and in-person conversations captured a wide range of responses to Get Home Safe. These included practical suggestions for making public transport safer - insights we were able to feed back to West Midlands Rail.
We received a variety of responses to our installation, with passers-by suggesting measures that could be put in place to make them feel safer in public space.
RESPONSES:
“More clarity on when to text 61016, and what happens when you do” “Have female security guards around stations”“More resources to support me if something does happen on public transport”. “An ‘Ask Angela’ equivalent that station staff were trained to respond to”“More guards on trains” “More artwork in the station which encourages people to speak to each other” “Staff could be more smiley/approachable to make me feel more confident in asking for help”“A travel buddies scheme for university freshers”
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director/Producers Daz Cox & Martha Harrison · Composer & Sound Designer Fraser Owen · Video Designer Amelia Hawkes.
CREDITS
Funded by West Midlands Rail’s Customer and Communities Improvement Fund
