
RESEARCH PROJECT
Your Emotional City (Deine Emotionale Stadt)
Lead Researcher
Matthew Pelowski
Collaborators
Berlin University Alliance, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Urbanization is a global phenomenon and poses pressing health challenges as urban dwellers carry a high risk for mental ill-health. Social stress due to built or population density might play a major role here, yet interactions with other environmental and health risk factors are still poorly understood. “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. Using a specially designed app and a citizen science/ecological momemtary assessment framework, we track individuals’ wellbeing and emotional/aesthetic responses to the city throughout their day, geolocating this to their position.
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