Haris Kotsoglou ▪ Polyomino

Visual Communication & Design Systems

Rattling frames:
Athens in Quarantine

Mapping the city's emotional landscape during the Covid-19 pandemic. An interactive art project by Anna Lascari.

During lockdown, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the residents of Athens were invited to document the silence and void of human presence in public space making reference to their own street and neighborhood, while sharing their feelings or reactions to the pandemic, social distancing, and the depopulated image of public space that arose due to the restrictive measures. The aim of the invitation was the creation of a collective archive of Athens under lockdown and the visualization of its emotional imprint on an interactive map. 

The shared emotions are classified in 15 categories which correspond to 15 colored groups on the emotional index. Every dot on the map corresponds to a video, shot on a specific address. By choosing a color from the emotional index, the user can see all spots that have been asigned the specific emotion. All spots are connected, thus symbolising the universality of the emotions experienced throughout Athens (and the world). The web of emotions gives its most powerful results when all or no emotions are selected.

Concept: Anna Lascari
Design: Haris Kotsoglou
Development: George Stamoulis and Kostas Minaidis