Picture of the presentation of the Relief Maps project at the SpinUOC 2018
The Ramon Molinas Foundation has awarded Relief Maps – a project by a researcher from the Gender and ICT research group (GENTIC) – a prize for the best social impact initiative.
Maria Rodó de Zárate received the UOC-RMF Prize for the best project with social impact, presented at #SpinUOC 2018, which took place on 14 June. The Relief Maps project highlights social inequalities.
Relief maps are a methodological tool for studying social inequalities from an intersectionality perspective, in three dimensions: the social dimension (positions and identities of gender, social class, ethnicity, age, etc.), the geographical dimension (places in daily life) and the psychological dimension (effects on emotions). Intersectionality is a theory that states the experience of oppression cannot be understood by just one explanatory framework (whether it be gender, social class or ethnicity); rather, it is necessary to understand how these different factors relate to one another and how their intersection affects our experiences. This is the basis of the relief maps and the main goal in using them.
Congratulations!