Body-map storytelling as research - CQ - University of Toronto

Body maps Body maps can be broadly defined as life-sizehuman body images created through drawing,painting or other art-based techniques to visuallyrepresent aspects of people’s lives, their bodiesand the world they live in. Body mapping is a way of telling stories, muchlike totems that contain symbols with differentmeanings, but whose significance can only beunderstood in relation to the creator’s overallstory and experience. Body maps can be created for different purposes,but the ones presented here were conceived forknowledge production and dissemination.