What a life map can look like
Five imagined lives, to show the shape of the thing. Kelavi never shows anyone else's map — these are made up.
Imagined lives
2004 — 2024
A life across three cities
Utrecht · London · Amsterdam
A Kelavi map can show how someone's life moved from Utrecht to London and later Amsterdam, grouping those years into chapters — the student flat, the first job abroad, the move back.
2015 — 2025
Ten years together
Ghent · Lisbon · Trieste
Two people, one map. The weekend that started it, the flat they shared, the town they kept returning to every autumn, and the places they went once and never forgot.
1996 — 2023
From childhood to adulthood
Zwolle · Groningen · Berlin
A map that begins with the street a person grew up on and ends somewhere they chose themselves. The distance between the two is the story.
2001 — 2021
A family across twenty years
Domburg · Antwerp · Kraków
The same coast every summer for two decades, seen through changing photographs. One place, twenty chapters, and everything that changed in between.
1988 — 2024
The places that shaped us
Maastricht · Aachen · Rotterdam
Not a holiday map at all: the hospital, the school, the two houses, the graveyard on the hill. A life map does not have to be about going anywhere.
These examples are imagined. Kelavi never shows anyone else's map.