TY - JOUR
T1 - Representing Her Trajectory
T2 - reflections on an arts-based research on women migration and data visualization
AU - Zeng, Hong
N1 - This project received full support from the Yale-China Artist Fellowship, a collaboration between the Yale-China Association, the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, and the Yale School of Drama. My heartfelt thanks to all the participants who contributed to the success of this project. Additionally, I extend my appreciation to Jana Pflaeging, one of the editors of Visual Communication, and to the three anonymous reviewers. Their insightful feedback and constructive critiques significantly elevated the quality of this article.
PY - 2024/2/21
Y1 - 2024/2/21
N2 - In recent decades, women have increasingly left their countries of origin, leading to an increase in transnational migration. Her Trajectory (2020), a project created by the author, represents women migrants’ paths, affects and experiences through counter-mapping and data visualization. Presented in web form (see https://hertrajectory.com/), this arts-based research project shows the migratory trajectories of 18 women participants by placing them and their personal objects onto a map, alongside their own object narratives. This article reflects on how the aesthetics and deployment of the textual, visual and kinetic designs re-humanizes migrants through their own narratives. The article also discusses how arts-based research could encourage participants to contribute their vernacular creativity to emotively transform migration studies.
AB - In recent decades, women have increasingly left their countries of origin, leading to an increase in transnational migration. Her Trajectory (2020), a project created by the author, represents women migrants’ paths, affects and experiences through counter-mapping and data visualization. Presented in web form (see https://hertrajectory.com/), this arts-based research project shows the migratory trajectories of 18 women participants by placing them and their personal objects onto a map, alongside their own object narratives. This article reflects on how the aesthetics and deployment of the textual, visual and kinetic designs re-humanizes migrants through their own narratives. The article also discusses how arts-based research could encourage participants to contribute their vernacular creativity to emotively transform migration studies.
KW - art-based research
KW - counter-mapping
KW - data visualization
KW - migrant
KW - narrative
KW - vernacular creativity
KW - visual methods
KW - woman
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186392456&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/14703572231210964
DO - 10.1177/14703572231210964
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1470-3572
JO - Visual Communication
JF - Visual Communication
ER -
