El Gradiente: making patterns of violence easier to recognise
I am developing El Gradiente with Dr Martha Alicia Tronco Rosas. The project brings together her experience with Violentómetro 1 and 2.0 and my work on TEG-Blue, writing, visual design and digital development.
64 patterns of harm
English · Spanish
A guide built around behaviour and context
The guide describes behaviours such as humiliation, monitoring someone’s phone, threats and aggression. Each entry gives examples and explanations so a reader can examine what happened in context.
The 64 patterns are arranged across a visual gradient. Readers can begin with a behaviour they recognise, open its explanation and follow links to information about healthy relationships and support.
The current resource
A digital guide in English and Spanish, available to read without an account. It is a working version that we are continuing to develop.
The gradient organises the descriptions for reading. It does not score a relationship or predict what will happen.
Open El GradienteHow our contributions meet
Martha’s contribution
Dr Martha Alicia Tronco Rosas brings her experience with Violentómetro 1 and 2.0. These tools are conceptual foundations for El Gradiente.
Visit Martha’s websiteMy contribution
I develop the TEG-Blue contribution, the content, the visual design and the website. That includes organising the descriptions, connecting patterns with examples and making the guide usable on a phone or computer.
The writing and interaction develop together: what a reader sees first, how they find a behaviour, and what information they need when they open it.
Tools for institutions, governments and companies
Our shared aim is to provide digital tools that help people understand patterns of violence and support work to prevent it.
A conversation could begin with an educational resource, a training context or a question an organisation wants to investigate. We would first clarify who the resource is for, what it should help them understand and what needs to be developed or studied.
The guide is the current work. Further tools and studies would be developed around an agreed purpose.
Start with your context
Tell me about your organisation, the people you work with and what you would like a resource to help them understand or do.
Discuss an El Gradiente collaborationDevelop a resource for your own work
El Gradiente is one example of bringing subject knowledge, writing, design and development into a digital resource. If you have an exercise, explanation or research material you would like to work with, we can explore what form it could take.
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