TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change
The TRANSFORM Partnership brings together 40 researchers, 16 universities, and 10 partner organizations —including NGOs, policy actors, and publishers —with hundreds of youth from around the world to study how young people are pivotal agents of change in gender equity, specifically through participatory visual and arts-based methodologies.
Pillars of TRANSFORM
Gender Transformation
At the core of TRANSFORM lies the concept of gender transformation—a radical approach aimed at dismantling unequal gender dynamics to mobilize social change. Although gender transformation serves as a guiding framework for feminist practices in global engagements, the concept is understudied, particularly in real-world implementation contexts.
Young people as agents of change
Using diverse art forms from photography and cellphilming to performance art and textile production, TRANSFORM’s participants will explore gender norms in relation to issues that matter most to them including climate justice, queer activism, sexual and reproductive health, and mental health.
Participatory visual and arts-based methodologies
TRANSFORM supports youth-led interventions to study how young people experience, envision, and enact gender transformation at field sites in Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa), Latin America (Argentina, Mexico), and South Asia (India).
