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Photography and Artwork by Ailie Rutherford

In 2025 I worked with researchers at Heriot-Watt University and University of Edinburgh's Equally Safe Online project to co-create a workshop model for working with gender-based violence survivors.

Exploratory sessions testing online/in-person and hybrid methods, held two core objectives:
to experiment with radical participatory methodologies to facilitate future discourse of lived experiences of online gender-based violence among highly marginalised cohorts affected by violence and abuse.
and to encode the research project concepts, producing an artistic computational code drawn from across all its research, aiming to aid interdisciplinary communication between the research team, where the artistic key tested transdisciplinary collaboration and bridged the social sciences, humanities, and STEM.

The unique combination of art and computer science allowed a collaborative visual process to be applied to participant researchers’ interpretations of online gender-based violence terms and ideas, permitting them to discover, discuss and crystalise concepts for the latter, most complex compuational stages of the project.

More information on the project can be found here