Today we are gathering and looking into each other’s map.

We need to understand what we need to do in order to have a good design challenge on how to portray certain information. 

Keywords are very interesting, and a way of way-finding.

Paramaps are interesting as well, and it would be interesting to see how we can read the map by looking at the edges of all the information on the edges. 

Going deeper within the map. Mobilizing your identity as a millennial within the map. We can use voice memos to add to the maps. 

The map is your system, it’s your job as designers and MAIP students to see how the items in the map inter-relate. We need to be critical and curious. There are 2 different aspects – social norms and our perspectives – we need complexity and everything needs to be dealt with the complexity.

CHAT GPT:

Mapping out a positionality involves identifying and analyzing the various social, cultural, and personal factors that contribute to an individual’s standpoint within a particular context. Here’s a general framework for mapping out positionality:

1. Identify Social Identities: Begin by identifying the various social identities that shape your perspective, such as race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, religion, sexual orientation, and ability.
2. Reflect on Privileges and Marginalizations: Consider how each of these identities confers privilege or marginalization within society. Reflect on the ways in which your social identities intersect and interact with one another, recognizing that privilege and marginalization are complex and multifaceted.
3. Examine Cultural Background: Reflect on your cultural background, including upbringing, family dynamics, traditions, and values. Consider how your cultural background influences your worldview, beliefs, and behaviors.
4. Analyze Educational and Professional Background: Reflect on your educational and professional experiences, including academic disciplines, areas of expertise, career trajectory, and access to opportunities. Consider how your educational and professional background shapes your knowledge, skills, and perspectives.
5. Reflect on Personal Experiences: Consider how personal experiences, such as life events, relationships, and encounters with discrimination or oppression, have influenced your worldview and understanding of social issues.
6. Consider Intersectionality: Acknowledge the intersectionality of your social identities and experiences, recognizing that they interact and intersect in complex ways to shape your positionality.
7. Reflect on Biases and Assumptions: Reflect critically on your biases, assumptions, and preconceptions. Consider how your positionality may influence your perceptions, interpretations, and interactions with others.
8. Consider Implications for Research or Action: Reflect on how your positionality may influence your approach to research, advocacy, or engagement with communities. Consider how you can leverage your positionality to promote inclusivity, equity, and social justice.

By mapping out your positionality in this way, you can gain a deeper understanding of how your social identities, experiences, and perspectives shape your standpoint within a particular context. This self-awareness can inform your interactions with others, your approach to research or advocacy, and your efforts to promote social change.

Feedback on my map:

Alia: Very informative in a way, where she feels she’s connected to me due to shared experiences. The arrows and how it panned out is interesting because there are elements that are the main focus, and then how it branched out could be more connected to each other. The colors are interesting because they seem connected. The font is very tiny, so if I could increase it, would be better. Polygamy aspect is very interesting. Getting lost when you zoom out, and making certain elements bold or italic.
Marsha: Not a huge point of a bullet point but there is also so much there. But it works well on how things are connecting. There is a way of how we put our insights together. Wanting that white space to breathe and also keep the complexity.
Iris: She found out interesting things in my map. She understands the forces and structures that have shaped me.

Also all the things we don’t use, we should keep it and benefit it for the future.