How to do it, how to show it?

I'm thinking of running tests in a smaller area to see how people react or if I have to rethink this a lot... My aim would be a to find a resonable sized and interesting area and try to map the emotions during a time fram. The former emotional maps that I find vary a lot in terms of mapped area and graphic design.

It might be interesting to make a series of maps, colours or some kind of markings changing according to the mood, and I also like the idea of comments to make it feel more accesible in a way, this is all anonymous but yet the readers get access to very personal thoughts and feelings.

The level of anonymity and feeling of closeness to the people sharing emotions also vary a lot.

I feel so loved - sharing online

The trend of using the cellphone for blogger and twitter etc, constantly sharing your thoughts and'status' with the world is used in this ad, where you on a google-like map find your location and add a message, as in the mapmylondon, but less foucused on memories. You use emoticons as your means of expression and then add a message if you want.

The thing is, the ambition from Google with this seems to be recieving and publishing constant status changes, even like an animation. But the service is still to spread out, its interesting but a large area and few people, so still quite random results. For New Zealand the results so far are this:

This means only 4 people sharing emotions so far... In for example Netherlands for some reason this google-emoticon- thing is quite poplular!

Why?

We are so controlled by our feelings when it comes to what our choices, where we go, who we meet, the clothes we wear and the food we eat. Also in a dense city the amount of ways we percieve a place varies in the infinite, but are there patterns? How much in common do we have when we experience a place, how much does place affect emotion?

Or are we just really closed up in our own thoughts, things that will happen later/happened earlier/is said on a cellphone, and the result will come out totally random?

From the readings I was interested in the idea of making invisible visible, even if its hard to do that in a scientific way when it comes to emotion, I think the results could be interesting...sharing city sharing emotions?
I was also interested in the De Certeau-text, how memories and events make space into place, the huge meaning of the associations we have for a certain place.

What?

Mapping feelings, or emotional experiences in a city(Auckland CBD), preferably over time, perhaps over a short period of time.



"A bottle of Mumm and a packet of Pringles was all it took. Oh and a good sunset."



-map my London user: TwoTaureansTitle:EngagementWhere: Streatham Common, with a view towards Ikea Year: 2003Theme: love

http://www.mapmylondon.com/memories.php



I realise when researching, that there are maps like this online, one interesting one is this one of London, sponsored by museum of London, where visitors freely upload their memories under categories combined with comments.



It's not the only one of it's kind, one more techniqual way is the one by Christian Nold in 2007 of SanFransisco, where the person who's emotions are being mapped straps on a device, measuring the excitement of the wearer through the skin. More exactly how that works I'm not sure.

http://sf.biomapping.net/

This webpages I've found throughhttp://fringehog.com/blog/uncategorized/ a blog with a lot of cool thoughts on the subject

hopefully this post is now of a video :) At least it should be a link. This video is interesting because it runs over the time of just one day in a city.
I've been thinking about making my project a map over time, or just a short timespan. First I was interested of making it over something quite intaginble like emotions in places around the cbd and the change of the feeling of places over 24 hours. It would be (or at least could be) very subjective, but it could also be possible to somehow collect info on this.
I dont know if this could be a series of maps or an animation, but the emotions expressed could be fear, happyness, stress etc.
It could also be more tangible like a map over nightlife to see which parts of the cbd is empty/populated during the hours of the night. I mean, mapping the routes taken by people going out/around/home. This is interesting, because, at least for me Auckland is a quite large city, although some other new students here feel quite the opposite though they're from even larger ones. Anyway, its a city that feels quite safe to move around in, after dark, as long as you stick to some areas.

TheWritingsOnTheWall

Derivé- things that are written on things

more unicorn found in auckland

Lost!

This note appeared in a special ally along the street that comes before high street, if i'm not all mistaken, Lorne st, perhaps! Did you see it?