Tracing the Unspoken
Early development of an analog drawing framework for women's health advocacy: can a time-bounded act of drawing by hand record what clinical documentation leaves out, and can peers and clinicians read it with care?
- Role
- Independent study, author and facilitator; Phase 1 co-facilitated with Ramisha Imam
- Where
- Genk, Belgium · online, ten countries · Aveiro, Portugal
- Methods
- Peer drawing session; remote pilot on paper, photographed and uploaded; structured clinician review
- Participants
- 36: 12 peers, 15 women, 9 clinicians
what was done
Phase 1, Art as Voice and Memory: a peer learning session at LUCA School of Arts on embodied, non-verbal care practices and trauma-informed memory work. Phase 2: a remote pilot in which women recruited through Prolific drew on paper at home and uploaded photographs of their drawings; a consent clause preceded submission. Phase 3: a review of the framework by nine practising clinicians.
what came out
The four-stage Affective Systemic Mapping framework and its first evidence from 36 participants. Published in the peer-reviewed proceedings of CONFIA 2026, 13th International Conference on Illustration and Animation, pp. 508–517, and presented in Coimbra, 26 June 2026. The conceptual companion, Drawing the Unspoken, was presented at Graphic Medicine Europe, Amsterdam, 9 September 2026.
