Happy Place: The Emotional Life of Cities

This project brings together a social psychologist, a cultural geographer, and two artists to interrogate happiness, its forms, meanings, and spatiality by using the methods of affect theory and data-driven art.

Using happiness as a cipher to explore discontinuities and intersections between different disciplinary approaches, Profs. Harp, Moon, Grzanka, and McHugh will seek an understanding of how data-driven art can illuminate, complicate, and embody ideas about affect and how they influence what can be called the emotional cartographies of cities, the distribution of affect across urban spaces.