01 — El Gradiente

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 guide available now

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 colours group descriptions by how harm can appear, including behaviours that are difficult to recognise, restrictions on someone’s choices, physical or sexual violence and immediate danger to life. They help readers browse the guide; they do not score a relationship, describe a sequence everyone follows or predict what will happen.

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What Martha and I contribute to El Gradiente

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.

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My contribution

As the creator of TEG-Blue, I also design and develop El Gradiente’s digital guide. I organise its content, connect the descriptions with examples and build the pages for phones and computers.

A reader may recognise a behaviour before knowing what to call it. I connect each description with examples and further information, so the route through the guide follows what the reader can already identify.

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.

Tell us who the resource would serve

Tell me about your organisation, the people you work with and what you would like a resource to help them understand or do.

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Develop a resource for your own work

El Gradiente shows how I bring subject knowledge, writing, design and development together in an interactive guide. If you have an exercise, explanation or research you want to share, we can discuss who it is for and whether it would work best as a written explanation, a website or an interactive app.

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