Intent Three : Mapping our lives

INTENT THREE: Mapping our lives

We have all experienced a time within a place on this crazy little green ball mostly covered in blue we call earth. Every person grows up with a certain set of standards in their life marked by certain milestones. These milestones are there until the day we die including relationships, jobs, etc. Milestones are a big part of our lives, but also small experiences can imprint themselves into our lives. I want to create a project that networks our experiences with places and time together back to the places and through each other.

This project aims at bringing together those milestones and small experiences to a map. When we experience things whether it be a first kiss or a wedding, they happen someplace that means something in reaction to the stories that they hold. Though these experience may be positive or negative in the case of a fatal car crash or a miscarriage, many times we remember the places these things happen because they hold significant meaning to us.

Mapping experiences seems to be a very visual way of connecting us together. Through implementing a tool set where users can mark experiences on a map, common threads of experiences over a given time can show us how much we relate to place and each other. In the grand scheme of things, the point is to allow us to investigate places because in some cultures place is just as important as people, but I feel we neglect and take for granted a larger portion of places.

An interface of a map will allow people to toggle through time reading people's stories, uploading their own as well as pictures, and any sort of mementos that the place holds. Many times people live their entire life someplace, but each year marks new experiences, and some places have had many people living there over time, and each person may experience the place differently, but also people may leave part of themselves behind in a place.