Looking Outwards 07-Alice Cai

http://atlasofemotions.org/#triggers

Atlas of Emotions

The Atlas of Emotions

This project was a commission for the Dalai Lama, a news religious source of Tibet, in 2014. His Holiness had very interesting conversations with a friend and scientist Dr. Paul Ekman about the subject of emotion and asked of an “Atlas of Human Emotion”. Stamen didn’t only illustrate an atlas of Human Emotion, he illuminated the emotional world.

The atlas is programmed to be an interactive tool that helps you learn more and be more conscious about your emotions. There are series of questions about your emotional states and corresponding actions. The program will create a map of all your emotions and actions as well as unpack the reasoning or cause and effects throughout your timeline. The goal is to gain consciousness of what triggers your emotion in order to be more in control of your emotional world. 

In this atlas, each emotion is represented as a continent, and within each emotion is a number of related emotional states. Next, each emotional state leads to actions, which then leads to triggers. He also mapped out the “cousin” of emotion, mood. Finally, he included a visualization of “calmness”, or a neutral state of emotion.