Wie fühlst du dich, Berlin?

In the organizer's words:

The research project "Deine emotionale Stadt" invites you to an interactive event on March 29, 2025 on the R.A.W. site in Berlin's Friedrichshain district. Together with "Rausgegangen", "Mit Vergnügen" and author Clara Lösel, a creative space will be created to make emotions visible in the city.

Since August 2022, the research project has collected everyday emotions from over 1900 Berlin residents and visitors via the "Urban Mind" app, contributing to research into mental well-being in the city. The aim of the project is to develop an emotional city map of Berlin. So far, interested parties have been able to gain an insight into the research and share personal perspectives on urban development at public workshops at Futurium and conferences.

In order to invite even more people in Berlin to share their emotional experiences of Berlin as citizen scientists in this research project and offer an interactive space for exchange, the event "How do you feel, Berlin?" has been launched. It will take place for the first time on 29.03.2025 from 12 noon in front of Cassiopeia in the center of the R.A.W. area, a place for alternative culture and street art, near Warschauer Straße in Berlin Friedrichshain.

The event will be organized and accompanied by the event platforms "Rausgegangen" and "Mit Vergnügen". The three-time literature prize winner, speaker and content creator Clara Lösel will also be there. Thanks to her wide reach, she encourages many young people to reflect on their emotions through writing and thus make them visible to people who can identify with similar emotions.

This new offering will further develop the project's citizen science approach, a method that involves citizens in scientific processes. A large gallery of emotions will also be created on site, to which every visitor can anonymously contribute their own feelings. The aim is to document an overview of feelings from a wide range of realities. This exchange is the start of "Your emotional city". The interactive event encourages participants to download the research app free of charge from GooglePlay or AppStore and answer questions about their current emotional state and their spatial environment up to three times a day over the course of the week.

About the project:

Cities trigger emotions - both pleasant and unpleasant. On the one hand, they offer opportunities for development, culture and prosperity. They are political, economic and scientific centers. But they also have another side, are often anonymous or dirty, and are home to injustice, crime and violence.

The Citizen Science project "Your emotional city" focuses on the emotional state of citizens. They use an app to share their personal feelings for a week in relation to their specific location. The aim is to decode the emotions in streets, squares, neighborhoods and parks and to gain insights for cities in general. These findings should help to find out what will make cities of the future places worth living in. In the course of the project, an emotional city map of Berlin will be created. Data transmission and processing will be anonymized and data processing will be GDPR-compliant.

"Deine emotionale Stadt" is a joint project of the Interdisziplinäres Forum Neurourbanistik e. V., Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Futurium - Haus der Zukünfte.

The knowledge gained is to be scientifically processed and made available to the public. Partnerships between the research group and numerous public and political bodies, institutions, associations and actors in urban public life are in place to translate the findings into practice. The project is funded by the Berlin University Alliance, the Foundation for Analytical Psychiatry and the Theodor Fliedner Foundation as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

Download the app via the following links:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/urban-mind/id1281988582

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.artistsandengineers.urbanmind_english&hl=en_GB≷=US

Head of the research group:

Mazda Adli, Prof. Dr. med., Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, mazda.adli@charite.de

Joerg Fingerhut, Dr. Phil, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, joerg.fingerhut@hu-berlin.de

Scientists Members of the research group:

Dr. Shadi Bagherzadeh Azbari, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, shadi.bagherzadeh-azbari@charite.de

Dr. Nassim Mehran, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, nassim.mehran@charite.de

Sephira Kolbe, M.Sc. Psych., Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, sephira-maria.kolbe@charite.de