affective data into instructions for performance. Each mapped location becomes a minute of play, where colors, numbers, words, and images fuse into actions.

Mapping the City Through Affective Data: Nabuurs&VanDoorn transform urban experience into color-coded, perceptual maps that reveal hidden social, cultural, and emotional dynamics, connecting Dutch artistic traditions to contemporary city life.

Explore the Field notes Berlin Edition Living ATlas as we traverse Berlin's phantom zones. Discover the living archive and its mythopoetical playground.

We begin our mapping of Berlin not as cartographers of spacetime, but as detectives of lost gestures—seeking subtle residues of movement, memory, and spiritual form embedded in the city’s surfaces. This is not a project of documentation, but of attunement. We are tracing a lineage of embodied knowledge that stretches from Javanese court dance to contemporary performance, from carved stone to whispered steps. Berlin, to us, is not a constructed city, but a palimpsest of attitu