MAPPING & LEGEND

Survey results analysis

Legend tryouts

Since COVID'19 started spreading, we are continously being convinced that our bodies are a threat for society and the world around us so we should protect the others from them. We should isolate ourselves from the world, we are dangerous. Our bodies take the burden of guilt, shame, fear. We are attacked daily by media that makes us hate our bodies and be afraid of them. That's why I decided to explore the relationiship of people with their bodies - physical and mental - and more particularly - how has it changed since the quarantine started.

For the mapping I'm planning to use characters, that I will create with the Bitmoji app. It is an app that people install on their phones and create a representation of themselves to easily share their own emotions, feelings and actions when communicating online. There are a few things we don't realise though - the app is not at all a true representation of us as the app options don't allow it - for example you can't recreate your unsymmetrical nose, your pimples, your moles, your scars, your braces, your messy hair... With the stickers or gifs you can't represent your mental state, your fears, your aspirations, your views... You can't represent your voice, your laugh, the way you walk... What I mean is, that app is full of 'standards' and stereotypes. You have to choose between only 3 types of lips, 6 types of body and 3 types of breasts. No more. That's the standard.

In that sense, I decided to work with the app features but make the stereotyping myself, based on the app available options. I will make a complete unlogical relations between feelings and thoughts (collected from the survey) and looks created in the Bitmoji app. That way, alongside sharing the results from my survey, I want to make people think about stereotypes and how we sometimes judge only by ‘the norm’ and the look, while it is often not what it looks like.

Impact on daily life – hair
financial situation was influenced – curly
financial situation was influenced – straight
personal life changed a lot – blond
personal life changed a bit – black
personal life almost didnt change – purple
personal life didn’t change at all – blue
no big changes – pink
changed, but will be back – green
changed and will stay like this – brown

Interaction with the virus – jawline
I had it –
A friend had it –
An acquaintance had it -
A family member had it -
I don’t know anyone -



Your body as a threat :

Behaviour in public spaces – body type
big change - thin
changed a bit - medium
didn’t change - big

Family and friends -
No : dimples
Yes – change of actions/habits : freckles

Intimacy and affection - hats
was very affectionate, now-less : wearing a light cowboy hat
was very affectionate, now-the same : wearing a dark cowboy hat
was a bit affectionate, now-less : wearing a red beret
was a bit affectionate, now-the same : wearing a black beret
wasn’t affectionate at all, now – the same : wearing a cap



Physical body- hats
love it more – Christmas hat
love it less – policeman hat
love it the same – chef hat

Mental heath state – nose shape
better
worse
the same

Staying emotionally stable - gender
had difficulties - male
had no difficulties - female




Media impact

Following the news in the epidemic – skin color
from time to time (more than before) -
from time to time (less than before) -
from time to time, (the same as before) -
every day (more than before) -
every day (less than before) -
every day (the same as before) -
listen to Tv news to stay informed (more than before) -
listen to Tv news to stay informed (less than before) -
listen to Tv news to stay informed (the same as before) -

Social media use – eye color
hasnt changed- brown
about an hour more- blue
2 to 5 hours more- purple
less than before- green




First thing you want to do after quarantine is over – clothes
party – a suit
meet my family – a sports outfit
go outside – a dress
hang with my friends – shorts and tshirt
travel - pyjamas

I chose the two topics most closely related to our body – attitude and feelings about your own body and mental state - for orienting my map on an x-y axis. I will create every bitmoji person based on an individual’s answers from the survey – kind of ‘judging’ and ‘stereotyping’ him according to his answers but based on really absurd criteria.

A really rough start of the legend (still needs a lot of thought and improving)
- there will be images of the features not related to colors
- will be more well structured and readable, understandable (in terms of fonts, shapes and sizes)
- I have to find a good neutral colors for the background and text