The main difficulty in talking about discrimination and verbal aggression is their apparent invisibility — we have become immune to the hate speech, and words began to appear in the everyday language which until recently we were ashamed to use in public. Consequently we stopped responding and did not notice when this kind of communication was taken over by the youngest. Meanwhile, the boundary between verbal and physical violence is very small, and sometimes to offend someone it is like to hit him/her.
My graduation project was designed to show the scale of verbal violence and discrimination among children. I decided to carry out it locally — in the form of a spacial survey in one of the schools, which was completed in total by 218 students aged 9 to 12. Its aim was to show how common verbal violence is and make people working in school discern the importance of the problem and respond to it. I wanted that through properly asked questions and specific tools that children would use to fill in the quiz provoke them to sincerely (and anonymously) talk about their problems. As a result, students' responses formed the message which was created completely transparently and live.
M.A. Project, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, 2016
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Project was selected with the best 18 graphic design graduation projects from Poland, Slovakia, Czech and Hungary in Graduation Projects 2016 competition.
It was also published in 2+3D magazine (No. 61).