final assessment

This is a summary of the past three weeks! Here you can find the most important sketches, research bits and the process of how we came to our final map. If you want to see more, you can click on the buttons that are under the titles.

research

Here is a summary of our textual, audiovisual and visual research.

The brain is such an inspiring element of our body. It can rewire over time, to think and see stuff differently that happened to you. It can also put you in a state of mind that you look at yourself differently, from a distance. That you are getting alienated or feeling alienated from your body.

visuals from others that inspired us at first

our own sketches that inspired us

visuals from others that inspired us now

questions arising in this state of making


how can you portray data about something so personal?

how can we show the subjectiveness of our map?

how are we going to show that alienation is the main overlap with these participants?


how do you actually make a map; what are key elements?

do we stick with being linear, even after discussions?

sketching, sketching, sketching

for the first map

the first map

changing the first map after feedback

sketching, sketching, sketching

for the second map

researching new ways of showing 5 stages

making a new map based on new insights

We came to find out that our first maps were too linear. That it could come over as if you saw everything in a second, with no deeper layer.

After multiple sketches, we came to find that it became interesting to see trauma and its effects as different 'islands' in your body. It has an impact on your brain or your legs for instance. These islands came about after analyzing the interviews and categorizing the different themes. There was some overlap, which the biggest of them all (7 out of 8) is alienation. The 1 out of 8 said that they had no comment on the question.

colour research / brush research

possible data visualisations

researching vertical/horizontal for the computer screen

analyzing

More sketches can be found here:

We went with horizontal because it is better to read,
as well as it makes it more apparent that it is the shape of a human.

writing an introduction and making a legend

With this map, the symbols were not clear enough. In the map, they were quite small. The star was rather confusing for the reader of the map.

In this map, there are fewer symbols. The introduction stayed the same because the map was still about this topic.

This little person is introduced to our map.

This person symbolises the beautiful people who participated in our survey, explaining how they coped with trauma and explaining their alienated feelings.

He/she/them is wandering around on the body, on the path of alienation. Looking at their body from a third-person perspective.

Looking at their body as to how our participants are looking at their body while feeling alienated.

thinking of other ways how to portray the data per interviewed person

trying out different things to portray alienation, but
accidentaly making a new organism

Wiest, Brianna. “Your Brain Processes The World Differently After A Traumatic Event”. Medium, 25 juni 2019, medium.com/@briaeliza/your-brain-processes-the-world-differently-after-a-traumatic-event-59292f0aa734.

DePrince, Anne P., PhD. “Alienation after Trauma”. Research Notes, 4 februari 2020, traumaresearchnotes.blog/2020/02/04/alienation.

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