Visual Narratives - Maps Development

As a group we collated our separate ideas and sketchbook work, as an attempt to bring together all of our favourite outcomes created on our incredible journey. We all liked the idea of trying to represent the physical space of the market as well as the experiences and things we saw within them. Some of the ideas we brainstormed wouldn't have worked, such as trying to draw a birds eye view of the markets from the inside, however reference material for this would have been difficult.

I really liked the idea of using a floor plan for the markets for the background base layer, with all the stalls and walkways made up of lines and shapes. However we instead found a map with an illustration of the markets on, also made of regimented and diagrammatic lines but more as an actual drawing of the exterior of the markets. Although it is a nice image and does make up an appealing and attractive layer, I think it could prove too busy and complex to be printed over with other layers.

This is the base layer. I was really interested in playing around with pattern and texture when layered on the screens, so using the china marker I filled in the areas of streets and other buildings with pattern.

The left is the drawings I have recreated from my sketchbooks ready to go on the screen. The right is a tessellation of all our experiences and sketches from our time in the markets.

I am very interested in the presentation of a relationship between a place and the experiences within it, layered up together. It creates an abstract but engaging connection between the two, where it is not immediately clear what that is, especially when the experiences we chose to depict are so random and jumbled. However we believe that this represents a very correct view of the markets, which are very mixed and overwhelming and eclectic like our top layer.