Mapping U.S. Historical Lynchings

Tangible and digital flow maps of incident sites and news; 2024 Design Challenge

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This is the product of 2024 Design Challenge by UW Cartography Lab. After processing the raw data, I firstly developed a web map using kepler.gl visualizing the flows between incident locations and newspaper locations of historical lynchings. Then, I created a static map, as the basis for the tangible version. Finally, I used watercolor to paint a choropleth layer of % black lynchings on an empty woodboard of contiguous U.S., and glued knitting wools of different colors and width to represent the aggregated trajectories with different level of involved people.

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