When human and algorithm collide to co-compose urban memory, place, and performance.

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

For our final Open Day at Hangar, we wanted to share a collection of forty color-coded photographs. With no dedicated exhibition space available, we decided to transform the limitations into an opportunity—creating a leporello in collaboration with XYZ Books (also known as concertina or accordion fold).

Nabuurs&VanDoorn return to Lisbon with a kinetic activation of Minor Modes of Multiple Muted Memories, where color-coded protocols unfold through movement across the city’s overlooked topographies. Interpreted by breakdancer Timo Paris, these gestures transform public space into a living atlas—part score, part spell, part site-specific choreography.

Currently nomadic, we explore how movement, memory, and public space entangle—through mapping and storytelling in Lisbon. A blackout reminded us of our digital dependence. We return to paper, walking, marking, tracing lived experience. What we map is not place but perception. A line through Lisbon becomes a Living Atlas—forty points, two questions, many echoes. A quiet rupture becomes an invitation to grow new eyes.

Landed in Lisbon. Nabuurs&VanDoorn Displaced Legend 17 Lisbon , Archival Print Hangar—our dropzone, an art-research nerve center, opposite the gaze-point of Graça, where the city spills down to the Tejo like braised cod. Start here, summon inner ghosts, snatch outer visions—chromatic pulses, stray verses, floaty fragments of unsure futures. We descend >Northbound< twisting steep bends, spiraling staircases like thought-loops. First break point: an old tile factory, legacy-lac

Opening the 28th of March at 14H30 in exhibition space KATE at Nieuw en Meer Amsterdam, Re-coding the Comatorium suggests an active process

Explore the enigmatic world of 'Vessel to vessel” Amsterdam in this thought-provoking blog. Dive into Nabuurs&VanDoorn’s legend and uncover

Already a full month at work in Amsterdam and our destiny is not yet in sight. The line we drew to Tjoba's docking station slowly guides us