Remote collaborations and digital meetings often compress personal stories into functional exchanges. While tools like video calls enable connection, they rarely capture the complexity of lived experiences that shape how people relate to one another. This project emerges from a shared condition - constant travel - and from the desire to replace a conventional introduction with a more meaningful, narrative form of exchange.
Question
How can personal data become a tool to get to know each other beyond a standard digital meeting?
Humap approach
Humap treats personal travel data as narrative material.
After collecting data on their movements throughout 2022 - including destinations, modes of transportation, and reasons for travel - the two designers translated their experiences into an imaginary, data-driven map.
The world is reconfigured as a single city: continents become neighborhoods, places turn into buildings, and journeys are visualized as paths within an urban fabric. By collapsing geographic distance into one shared space, the map transforms individual memories into a collective, readable structure, where data, illustration, and storytelling intersect.
Outcome
A data-driven illustrated map that transforms personal travel data into a shared spatial narrative, using cartography as a relational tool to visualize experiences, affinities, and stories in a single, fictional city.
A collaboration with Martina Zunica (Ta-Daaata)
Sources: Personal data