Turns

TURNS is a web project which encourages people of all ages and backgrounds to reflect on a major event that changed their lives. It asks, what is the turning point choice you made in the past that still influences the present? How does that event relate to those of others?

The project is a 'community building" one focused on the collection and sharing of a life story which stands out as an experience so significant that a decision resulted which turned your life's direction: perhaps it was a transformative insight from an extreme experience or crisis; the sudden perception of the essential nature or meaning of events. Such a critical experience may have produced a change in your original identity and may propose to you the mapping of new journeys.

By sharing your experience, you are enabled to explore your narrative though related databases linked to sites where you can explore your personal story in the context of links to others. You may also interpret it through various lenses such as gender and ethnicity . In this way, T U R N S provides the opportunity for public access to research into lives lived under many different circumstances and time periods, seen through many different kinds of perspectives.