I am pleased to share this proposal for the new digital experience for Filipina Care Workers & COVID-19 Photovoice project.
For over a decade I have created digital experiences for large corporate clients. But, I felt like my work didn’t align with my values. So in December of 2017 I left my job at Huge (a leading digital agency) to see how I might begin to work on projects that work towards collective liberation. Since then my work has increasingly become about creating space for histories, stories, and songs that are intentionally erased.
Filipina Care Workers & COVID-19 Photovoice project is at the intersection of many of my own interests in migration and migrant right, alternative forms of knowledge sharing, and the dismantling of supremacist systems. I wholeheartedly believe that creating a platform to share the stories of Filipina Care Workers during COVID-19 is critical.
Over the past few years I have become more interested in migrant rights, and this has led me to learn from many grassroots organizations including Anakbayan, Migrante, and the Migrant workers alliance. Briefly doing some design work with Migrante around the “Justice for the Mushroom Four” campaign.
Finally, as a Colombian immigrant who fled a civil war and violence I feel deeply invested in creating work that holds space for migrant stories.
My overall approach to design is collaborative and iterative. Design for me is a practice of relationship building, flexibility and listening. I am more interested in working together than pushing for my own preconceived ideas. I am curious to learn more about the Photovoice methodology.
I am a proud signatory of the Design Justice Principles which guides every aspect of my work.
Sincerely,
Silvia González