Creating a Visual Language of Marks

THE PROJECT

The Language of Marks project uses archives, art, design, data visualisation, analytics, and Machine Learning to recover and restore African identities and life stories which the slave trade sought to erase.

Our Research
The Team
Our News
Machine Learning
3D Historical Recreation

Our research addresses historical wrongs and the problems of lost identities created by the global slave trade, and asks how a visual approach to data collection may give rise to new discoveries and findings.

Language of Marks