🇬🇧 Story Mapping Discovery at V&A's New Wing 🗺️✨

During my recent visit to the V&A Museum's new exhibition space, I was completely captivated by the Robin Hood Gardens display - particularly its massive visualized mapping installation that tells the neighborhood's story through layered narratives. In a cozy ground-floor screening room, we sat cross-legged watching former residents share childhood memories and reflections on the meaning of "home." Through supplemental materials, I learned Robin Hood Gardens was a postwar social housing complex embodying Britain's utopian welfare state ideals. As someone obsessed with mapping as a storytelling medium, I was mesmerized by how this installation: ✔️ Transforms urban data into emotional landscapes ✔️ Reveals cramped living conditions through spatial collages ✔️ Celebrates vibrant domestic life in communal housing ✔️ Uses texture and scale to convey density vs intimacy I photographed each mapping segment like puzzle pieces - when rearranged, they reveal both the architecture's constraints and each family's unique way of carving out personal sanctuaries within shared spaces. 📍 V&A Museum Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL Why This Matters: ✔️ Rare look at UK social housing history ✔️ Brilliant merge of design + sociology ✔️ Interactive storytelling approach ✔️ Free permanent exhibition #VAMuseum #StoryMapping #SocialDesign #CommunityArchitecture #LondonMuseums #UrbanHistory #DataVisualization #PublicHousing #DesignExhibition #NarrativeArt