Approach
Every project starts with a different question.
Maps, data, diagrams, and everyday gestures offer different ways to explore it. The tools and outcomes change, but a few ideas keep coming back.
Approach
Every project starts with a different question.
Maps, data, diagrams, and everyday gestures offer different ways to explore it. The tools and outcomes change, but a few ideas keep coming back.
[01] Three ways of thinking
Three recurring ways of looking at the
world, finding connections, and giving
ideas a form.
Three recurring ways of looking at the
world, finding connections, and giving
ideas a form.
Maps as Portraits
Maps as narrative and critical tools
A map can tell us much more than where things are. It can capture the character of a place, trace memories, reveal relationships, or offer a different perspective on something familiar. By choosing what to show, connect, or leave out, mapping becomes a way to interpret the world and tell its stories.
Maps as Portraits
Maps as narrative and critical tools
A map can tell us much more than where things are. It can capture the character of a place, trace memories, reveal relationships, or offer a different perspective on something familiar. By choosing what to show, connect, or leave out, mapping becomes a way to interpret the world and tell its stories.
Data as Material
Data translated into form and space
Data can be found in the smallest things: movements, habits, routines, and everyday choices. Once collected and observed, it becomes material to work with. It can turn into a diagram, a pattern, an illustration, or a physical object. Each form offers a different way to discover connections and see something familiar in a new light.
Data as Material
Data translated into form and space
Data can be found in the smallest things: movements, habits, routines, and everyday choices. Once collected and observed, it becomes material to work with. It can turn into a diagram, a pattern, an illustration, or a physical object. Each form offers a different way to discover connections and see something familiar in a new light.
Information as Gesture
Information designed to be touched and transformed
Information can take a physical form, inviting people to engage through touch, movement, and discovery. A textured surface, a piece of fabric, a tile to flip, or an element to move can turn reading into an active experience. Sometimes a gesture reveals something hidden. Other times, it contributes to creating the visualization itself. In both cases, interaction becomes a way to explore, understand, and connect with information.
Information as Gesture
Information designed to be touched and transformed
Information can take a physical form, inviting people to engage through touch, movement, and discovery. A textured surface, a piece of fabric, a tile to flip, or an element to move can turn reading into an active experience. Sometimes a gesture reveals something hidden. Other times, it contributes to creating the visualization itself. In both cases, interaction becomes a way to explore, understand, and connect with information.
[02] Who Humap Works With
Different people. Different questions. New things to explore.
Humap collaborates with people and organizations working across culture, communication, education, research, and public life.
Projects often bring different perspectives together, connecting visual storytelling, research, and participation.
Different people. Different questions. New things to explore.
Humap collaborates with people and organizations working across culture, communication, education, research, and public life.
Projects often bring different perspectives together, connecting visual storytelling, research, and participation.
Communication & Media
Stories worth sharing
For editorial platforms, creative studios, and organizations looking for new ways to communicate ideas and information.
Communication & Media
Stories worth sharing
For editorial platforms, creative studios, and organizations looking for new ways to communicate ideas and information.
Culture & Communities
Questions worth exploring together
For festivals, cultural spaces, associations, and community-led initiatives that want to create opportunities for exchange and participation.
Culture & Communities
Questions worth exploring together
For festivals, cultural spaces, associations, and community-led initiatives that want to create opportunities for exchange and participation.
Culture & Communities
Questions worth exploring together
non-profit organisations
foundations and observatories
public institutions
civic initiatives
Education & Research
Knowledge worth exploring
For universities, researchers, and educational organizations looking for visual and engaging ways to share ideas and discoveries.
Education & Research
Knowledge worth exploring
For universities, researchers, and educational organizations looking for visual and engaging ways to share ideas and discoveries.
Education & Research
Knowledge worth exploring
universities
research institutes
cultural organisations
workshops and lectures
[03] What we can do together
Every idea can take a different shape.
Every idea can take a different shape.
Depending on the context, the outcome might be a map, a diagram, an installation, an exhibition, or something entirely unexpected.
The aim is to find a form that helps people see things differently, discover connections, or become part of the story.
Depending on the context, the outcome might be a map, a diagram, an installation, an exhibition, or something entirely unexpected.
The aim is to find a form that helps people see things differently, discover connections, or become part of the story.