1.3 Assignment

2.5 Key takeaways

1. There is no specific support for sexual violence victims at TU Delft.

2. Raising awareness is critical for increasing the reporting rate.

3. Sexual harassment is the worthful design direction for this project.

4. Many long-term sexual violence cases started from a small overstepping behavior.

5. The international students urge to find new friends in a whole new country. They blur their body boundary unintentionally, and this case danger.

6. The severe socializing restriction of Covid-19 facilitated the sexual violence cases. Because the public place in fulfilling this need has vanished, people lower their original boundary in order to exchange the possibility of meeting new friends.

7. Sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, and sexual harassment are four common types on campus. Among all types, sexual harassment with a high portion of female victims from 40% to 62%.

8. Atria suggested three main strategies for improving the violence against women: prevention policy, awareness-raising, and decentralization policy. From the perspective of a designer, awareness-raising is a relatively feasible starting point for a graduation project.