Cliterate
Dr Judith Glover
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Geographic location
Australia
Year
2019-2023
Description
Cliterate is a sex-education tool focusing on the teaching of sexual health and anatomy. Cliterate and the supporting educational resources are designed to encourage respectful conversations between health practitioners, educators, health-care clients and students based on accurate scientific knowledge. Cliterate's spherical, pull-apart design accurately explains the relationship between the clitoris, vulva and pelvis. It can be comfortably held in one hand and demonstrated with the other. It represents diverse communities of users. It is intuitive and interactive, comes apart and goes together easily in a puzzlelike way that creates respectful, factual conversation and education.
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Acknowledgements
Anita Brown-Major, Charlie Richardson, Cara Jordan-Miller, Peter Hvala
Biography
Dr Judith Glover is an award-winning design researcher, educator and Industrial Design practitioner at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her PHD thesis “Taboo to Mainstream” on the sex toy industry explored the technical capabilities that Industrial Design process and methods could offer in improving manufacturing and design quality for the sex toy industry. It also explored how gender and sexuality notions are embedded within mass production to explain the lack of suitability of products for contemporary women and how Industrial Design process and methods are an important part of changing industry standards.