Applying a Systemic Approach to Gender Transport Poverty : Pakistan in Context
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 40471613
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.7577/formakademisk.3377
- Title of journal
- FormAkademisk
- Article number
- 1
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 1890-9515
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research addresses gender transport poverty in Low-Middle-Income Countries using ethnographic and empathic design approaches to understand and re(present) the effects of gender transport poverty. It was conducted as part of the 18-month WEMOBILE project funded by the AHRC under the Global Network fund led by Professor Andree Woodcock and Dr Yong Adilah Binti Shamsul Harumain (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia).
The project addresses two of the UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls and make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The international, all-female research team from Pakistan, Malaysia, the UK and the US, worked collaboratively to capture the everyday travel experiences of women in Pakistan to understand their mobility problems and how they are currently being addressed. The project took a design research approach led by Woodcock, employing self-ethnographic, empathic and qualitative design research, to develop new ways to articulate and represent barriers to women’s mobility using a systemic synthesis.
The research outcomes include resources for designers and others to address the transport requirements and mobility needs of women in Low and Middle Income Countries. The findings of the project emphasise the complex nature of women’s lives and the problems that access to adequate, safe transport may pose for them when balancing work and home life. Methodologically, the research demonstrates how ethnographic research can be trans-formed into system maps, and it demonstrates the value of such maps for understanding systems-level problems. Opportunities for innovations in the transport sector to tackled gender inequality in Pakistan are offered.
The project produced two book chapters and several international conference papers. This paper was originally presented at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) conference in Turin (2018) and extensively rewritten to include a systemic approach has been applied to women’s everyday mobility problems in Pakistan.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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