Weaving Data, Interwoven Urban Trajectories: Gender, Technology, and Care.

This work explores how everyday mobility, particularly care-related movements, can be represented beyond conventional data-driven systems. Based on ten ethnographic mobility shadowing journeys with women caregivers in Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, the project combines interviews, video recordings, and textile cartographies inspired by Andean khipus. These material representations encode trajectories, transport modes, stops, and temporalities, offering an embodied alternative to conventional data visualizations. By juxtaposing lived journeys with their algorithmically inferred versions, the installation reveals how different forms of mobility are interpreted, simplified, or transformed within data systems. Situated at the intersection of data physicalization and feminist data studies, this work proposes craft-based approaches as a way to critically engage with how data is produced, represented, and made meaningful in urban contexts.