conduct.

Treat people with respect. Make room for different backgrounds, identities, abilities, experience levels, and ways of working. Disagree directly about ideas without attacking the person. Respect physical space, boundaries, privacy, sleep, shared property, and the fact that a residency is both a workplace and a temporary home.

• Harassment, discrimination, intimidation, stalking, bullying, threats, or violence.
• Unwanted sexual attention, sexual harassment, non-consensual contact, or repeated contact after someone has asked you to stop.
• Abusive or degrading comments based on caste, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or another protected characteristic.
• Sharing another person's private information, application materials, images, recordings, or conversations without permission.
• Retaliating against someone for raising a concern, supporting a report, or participating in a review.
• Deliberately damaging property, creating an unsafe environment, or using alcohol or another substance as an excuse for harmful behaviour.

Follow venue, accommodation, equipment, and safety rules. Ask before entering private rooms, borrowing personal items, recording people, or inviting an outside guest into a controlled Forge space. Participants are responsible for their guests.

Romantic, personal, or investment interest never removes the need for clear consent or professional boundaries. Anyone with authority over selection, grants, employment, or access must disclose a conflict that could affect their judgment.

Tell a Forge team member you trust or email adi@forgeresidency.com. You may report something that happened to you, something you witnessed, or a pattern that makes the space unsafe. Include only the detail you are comfortable sharing; we may ask focused follow-up questions.

If there is immediate danger or a medical emergency, contact local emergency services first and then notify the Forge team when it is safe to do so.

Forge will acknowledge the report, assess immediate safety, and review the concern as promptly and fairly as the circumstances allow. We may speak to the people involved, preserve relevant information, change accommodation or access, pause participation, or involve venue staff, professional advisers, or authorities where necessary. Information is shared only with people who need it to respond, investigate, or comply with law; complete confidentiality cannot be promised.

Depending on severity and context, a response may include a direct conversation, a boundary or safety plan, a warning, removal from an event or residence, loss of program access or support, termination of a working relationship, or referral to an appropriate authority. Forge may take immediate protective action before a review is complete when safety requires it.

Reports made honestly will not harm an application or standing merely because a concern was raised. Knowingly false or malicious reports may themselves violate this code; a report that cannot be substantiated is not, by itself, a false report. We will consider context, evidence, safety, and applicable law before deciding an outcome.

This code supplements, and does not replace, rights or reporting routes available under applicable law or a separate employment, venue, participant, safeguarding, or workplace policy. Nothing here prevents anyone from contacting law enforcement, emergency services, a regulator, or obtaining independent advice.