Experiences of exclusion, silencing, and lack of representation are often lived in everyday spaces: at home, at school, at work, in public or social environments. While these experiences are widespread, they are rarely made visible, shared, or collectively acknowledged. Tracce In-visibili was conceived as a participatory artwork to surface these unspoken experiences and give form to what usually remains unseen.
Question
In which spaces of your life do you feel you don’t have a voice?
Humap approach
Humap adopts participatory data visualization as both a method of listening and a visual language.
Participants are invited to respond to the central question through a simple, symbolic gesture: choosing a color associated with a specific place (home, school, work, street, social spaces, etc.) and placing a sticker along hand-drawn lines on a blank surface.
Each individual gesture becomes a data point.
As traces accumulate, personal experiences turn into a collective map in progress, revealing patterns, concentrations, absences, and connections across different spaces of everyday life. In the final phase, the remaining empty lines are manually traced, visually completing the work and symbolically transforming Tracce In-visibili into Tracce Visibili.
Outcome
A participatory, evolving data artwork that translates lived experiences of silencing into a collective visual map, turning individual gestures into shared, readable patterns and making invisible social dynamics visible through space, color, and accumulation.