Gendered ratio 56% — 44%
Frame #160 Special 2025
Frame #161 Spring 2025
Frame #162 Summer 2025
Frame #163 Autumn 2025
Frame #164 Winter 2025
Mediated Bodies* is an ongoing series of analytical photography and comparative media analysis, examining how design media, particularly magazines, reinforce gender norms. Its central case study tracks gendered representation across issues #89—#164 of Frame Magazine, quantifying a shift from 80/20 to 64/36, 60/40 to 54/44 following presentation of the findings directly to the magazine's editors.
The series has been staged as 'Frame' in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2025, and shown at venues including the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2023), as part of 'The F*word: Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design'; Design Museum London (2018); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015). Also presented through talks and keynotes at ACUADS (2025), Barcelona Design Week (2020), and Madrid Design Week (2019).
Original context: Design Diva, Frame Magazine, #89, p. 154. Photo: Fernando Guerra. Subject: Guta Moura Guedes.
Original Context: Grande Dame of Curation, Frame Magazine, #93, p. 181. Photo: Filippo Bamberghi. Subjects: Rossana Orlandi & Maurizio Cattelan.
Exhibited
2025 Frame 2025, iteration of Mediated Bodies*
2023 The Fword: Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; curated by Dr. Julia Meer
Presented
2025 Disobedience, Keynote, 37th ACUADS Conference
2020 The Gender of Design, FAD Forum, Barcelona Design Week
2019 La revolución de los espacios, Madrid Design Week
2018 Gendered Technologies, Design Museum London
2016 Can Design be Genderless?, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
2015 Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London
2015 Design & Gender Identity, Design Debates, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Published
2018 Design as an Attitude, Alice Rawsthorn, Chapter 6: Is Design Still a (Cis)Man’s World?
2016 De__Sign, Revealing the Condition of the Mediated Body, Studies in Material Thinking, Vol. 15, Auckland University of Technology, pp. 1–20
2015 Mediated Bodies, Cumulus Milano 2015: The Virtuous Circle, McGraw-Hill Education Italy, pp. 51–66
Gendered ratio 80% — 20%
Frame #95 Nov/Dec 2013
Frame #94 Sep/Oct 2013
Frame #93 Jul/Aug 2013
Frame #92 May/Jun 2013
Frame #91 Mar/Apr 2013
Frame #90 Jan/Feb 2013
Frame #89 Nov/Dec 2012
Gendered ratio 64% — 36%
Frame #106 Sep/Oct 2015
Frame #105 Jul/Aug 2015
Frame #104 May/Jun 2015
Frame #103 Mar/Apr 2015
Frame #102 Jan/Feb 2015
Frame #101 Nov/Dec 2014
Frame #100 Sep/Oct 2014
Gendered ratio 60% — 40%
Frame #125 Nov/Dec 2018
Frame #124 Sept/Oct 2018
Frame #123 Jul/Aug 2018
Frame #122 May/Jun 2018
Frame #121 Mar/Apr 2018
Frame #120 Jan/Feb 2018
with Frame Magazine editor Enya Moore
The Frame Magazine Analysis was presented to the editors of the magazine and sparked a public dialogue, which was held, in the form of a design debate between the editors and myself. In this way, the research became performative and active while creating a space for dialogue and an opportunity for collaboration.
Download: DE_SIGN: Revealing the Condition of the Mediated Body
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