EmergeCity
type:
Concept / Speculative Design
Duration:
5 Weeks
Project Overview
Project Overview
EmergeCity explores how individual emotions can become visible and collective within urban space.
Instead of expressing emotions through language or explicit input, the system translates human movement and presence into abstract emotional forms that accumulate across the city.
The project proposes a mixed-reality environment where emotions are represented as geometric units, gradually forming shared emotional landmarks over time.
EmergeCity explores how individual emotions can become visible and collective within urban space.
Instead of expressing emotions through language or explicit input, the system translates human movement and presence into abstract emotional forms that accumulate across the city.
The project proposes a mixed-reality environment where emotions are represented as geometric units, gradually forming shared emotional landmarks over time.
EmergeCity explores how individual emotions can become visible and collective within urban space.
Instead of expressing emotions through language or explicit input, the system translates human movement and presence into abstract emotional forms that accumulate across the city.
The project proposes a mixed-reality environment where emotions are represented as geometric units, gradually forming shared emotional landmarks over time.
Problem
In dense urban environments, emotional experiences are often:
Invisible to others
Isolated and individual
Difficult to express without language
Cities are filled with emotional activity, yet there is no shared way to perceive or acknowledge collective emotional presence.
In dense urban environments, emotional experiences are often:
Invisible to others
Isolated and individual
Difficult to express without language
Cities are filled with emotional activity, yet there is no shared way to perceive or acknowledge collective emotional presence.
In dense urban environments, emotional experiences are often:
Invisible to others
Isolated and individual
Difficult to express without language
Cities are filled with emotional activity, yet there is no shared way to perceive or acknowledge collective emotional presence.
Theoretical Framework
The project is informed by Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City, reinterpreting urban spatial elements as emotional structures.
User path
Emotional Cube
Different emotional path Creates different Cube
Different emotional path Creates different Cube
Emotional Node
Emotional Landmark
