“Who Cares?” started as a research proposal under the title “Institutional Responsibility: Protocols of Care” (IRPC) submitted for funding to the international office at our university -ZHdK (as well as to forming diversity- ZHdK, agents of transformation -ELIA & UdK, equal opportunities commission- ZHdK, etc). This project came about after living a traumatic experience of sexual violence during an exchange program, and the re/un/actions which followed. It was an attempt to figure out was was not working as per protocols, and what was (and should be) understood as institutional responsibility, “integrity” protection, and what changes could and should see the day so no one else had to overcome such situations alone. Very quickly, the response for funding was negative except for the support of the Diversity Office who offered to fund a small paper which could have an outcome. A series of conversations, expositions, continuous talks followed in order to explain over and over the importance of the project. It became slowly a research within the institutional body, getting to feel and understand all the layers which compose them, the politics behind them, the emotions and frustrations behind them, and also the forces behind them who try to change realities or when not at least not with the institution but within.
