Experiencing Belonging

An interactive storytelling experience exploring identity,
distance, and belonging across borders

Project Overview

This project explores what it means to build a life across borders as a Filipino student, and how that experience can feel both deeply personal and quietly shared.

Through an interactive storytelling experience, users move through a narrative grounded in my own story while being prompted to reflect on their own. At key moments, their responses are revealed alongside others, creating a sense of collective visibility.

The project reframes in-betweenness not as fragmentation, but as something that can be held together. Rather than presenting a single, universal narrative, it emphasizes that while experiences differ, they do not happen in isolation.

Ultimately, the goal is to reduce feelings of isolation by transforming individual reflection into a shared, visible experience.