The Prototype

One of the future goals of the 247 Hours will be to create a fully interactive virtual reality experience to highlight the decision-making that women undertake on a regular basis, when traveling alone through cities, as a result of routine experiences of street harassment. This learned behavior is powerful, and it affects women even in situations that seem otherwise unremarkable, like on a routine trip home from the pub on a weekend evening.

 

The VR experience would follow a path of interaction like the one below, and ultimately, this will be added to and adjusted based on additional rounds of focus grouping. Its ultimate goal is twofold: as an art piece to be experienced by the curious, and as a political statement, to highlight to local leaders the importance of considering women's personal safety when evaluating areas that are safe or that can be improved in the city of Brighton & Hove.