Sophie Dyer is a designer, educator, and sometime writer. Their work uses participatory and investigative design to explore anticolonial and feminist approaches to weather, climate, and social justice.

For the last five years they have co-led open-weather.

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One hundred voices: Women and girls under Taliban rule in Afghanistan

Extracts from one hundred interviews with women and girls in Afghanistan, rendered as messages. A collaboration with Rectangle (Lizzie Malcolm and Daniel Powers).
(July 2022)
Amnesty International
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Extracts from one hundred interviews with women and girls living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, rendered as messages for Amnesty International’s 2022 report and campaign, Death in Slow Motion.

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Developed in collaboration with designer and developer Lizzie Malcolm (Rectangle), filmmaker Tamana Ayazi, and human rights researcher Nicolette Waldman (Amnesty International).

*Names have been changed to protect identities.

  • Extract from the testimony of Khatool, a former school principle
  • Extract from the testimony of Atefa
  • Extract from the testimony of Lima, a university professor