Thursday, 25 October 2012

How do you show change of empathy graphically?

All afternoon I've been struggling with this question of how to diagram the experience of this design on the community (ie how it will change the overall cultural empathy and understanding over time). I was thinking about diagramming using an outline of australia with some connection lines drawn to other countries however this all seemed a bit bland and done. 

I then started considering voice patterning and looking at sound waves describing the different views/ stories that would be heard with this program. This I still think is a good start point for a diagram however it was through looking into images of these on google that I happened upon voice mapping. I believe this is an alternate therapy used to pick up your emotional feelings via registering different tones in your voice (fear, anger, depression, worthlessness). While this all seems quite new age medecine, I thought it was a good way of mapping a change of emotions in an interesting way. Below is an example from a website about it...
From http://www.mkvoicemap.com/

I think if I take this basis of a circular diagram, having negative emotions on the outside and their counter parts on the inside, I can use several overlaid colours for the data to show a change in a communities feelings towards outsider cultures over several intervals of time. Ultimately I will need to tweak the feelings compared to those shown above, but I think it will be more interesting for my diagram to have a bit of a homage to this kind of (scientific) thinking.

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