Your emotional city
The city that never is and always will be. We ask ourselves: How does this city actually feel? Together with you, we want to collect precisely these feelings and create a city map of emotions. To do this, we have developed an app you can use to participate in the citizen science project.
About the project
Cities trigger emotions in us – pleasant and unpleasant ones. On the on hand, they offer opportunities for development, culture and prosperity. They are political, economic and scientific centers. But they also have another side; they are often anonymous or dirty, and there is injustice, crime and violence in them. Cities stimulate us, and they challenge us. Sometimes they cause stress. Some even make us sick. But they also fascinate us. Everything has an impact on our psyche and health.
Become an urban researcher
Participate!
If you would like to participate in the project as an urban researcher and join us in collecting data on stress and well-being locations in Berlin, you can download the app “Urban Mind” from the App Store or Google Play and get started. On the app's first screen, select “Your emotional city” and you're ready to go! If you subscribe to the Futurium newsletter, we will inform you in the future about the current project status and about events of “Your emotional city”.
In the Citizen Science project “Your emotional City” we want to discover how citizens* feel, decipher the sensations at concrete streets, squares, neighborhoods and parks, and gain general insights into cities. Together we will find out what makes cities of the future places worth living in.
Events
In addition to the app, there are new exchange formats in the project: Public workshops and events, where all actors can contribute perspectives and questions to the research project.
Read more
You can also read more about the project on our blog:
How the City Affects our Psyche
On the streets of the city, life pulsates with a constant rhythm of mobility and noise. In our ever-evolving world, we bring together researchers and ordinary citizens to find holistic approaches to promoting mental health in the city. For this reason, at the end of February, we hosted a workshop to explore the influence of urban life on the psyche of city dwellers.
This is how the app launch and start of the Citizen Science project in the Futurium was
Join the Citizen Science project “Your emotional city”! Together we are developing an emotional city plan. Here we show you some impressions of the project's kick-off on August 22. Doctor and founder of the “Healthy Earth-Healthy People” foundation Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen was also present.
A manual
Press Contact
Monique Luckas
Head of Communications
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Cooperation partner
“Your Emotional City” is a joint project of Interdisziplinäres Forum Neurourbanistik e. V., Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Futurium – House of the Futures. Funded by the Berlin University Alliance as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.