ASE [External Safety Adjustments]

A contemporary reinterpretation of the strategies and objects of self-defense used by women in the late 19th century.

ASE is a Do it Yourself device for use with a mobile phone consisting of several standard ironmongery parts to which safety elements can be attached based on each user’s needs. The items are made in a workshop in which attendees discuss the correlations between gender, violence and public spaces and how women act in view of their feelings of being unsafe on the streets. 

Exhibition: Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today
Location: DHUB, Design Museum Barcelona
Curators: Viviane Stappmanns, Nina Steinmüller, Susanne Graner
Curators Spanish Section: Teresa Bastardes, Isabel Cendoya
Isabel Fernández del Moral
Year: 2022

Workshops developed at:
2019    Tangent Projects, Hospitalet de Llobregat 
2019    ELISAVA school of Design & Engineering, Barcelona 
2018    Privat Space Sant Andreu, Barcelona