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Following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, we co-initiated an emergency documentation project gathering testimonies of Ukrainian citizens on the move. Within the current research project ‘Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the War’, interviewees are revisited (www.u-core.org). This paper uses a selection of these double interviews with Ukrainian citizens who received temporary refugee status in Luxembourg. Whereas some of them were still domiciled in the Grand-Duchy, but had returned to Ukraine for short term visits, when they were interviewed a second time, others had in the meantime moved on. The authors offer insights into digital visualisations of the interviewees’ narrated experiences of migration. They compare and reflects upon the possibilities of geographic cartography (in the software program Nodegoat), and a humanistic approach to digital mapping, such as visualised narration (similar to the project ‘Stories behind a line’, www.storiesbehindaline.com) or emotional cartography (inspired by the counter-mapping of contemporary migration of Davide Monteleone) for a visual expression of the gendered subjectivities and embodied emotions related to the interviewees’ mediation and appropriation of space. Special attention is paid to the question how digital mapping can display the evolution of interviewees’ understanding of space from the first to the second interview, e.g, through time-controlled geographic visualisations in Nodegoat or layered visual overlapping in human geographic cartography. The authors also reflect upon their interdisciplinary and intercultural encounter, i.e. between a tenured History Professor in Luxembourg and a student in Data Sciences from Ukraine holding temporary refugee status.
