I’ve been working on a project that asks users to be a cartographer of their own emotions.

The goal is to guide people to create a hometown filled with places that resonates with specific emotions. Think about everywhere you feel or once felt at home: your bedroom, the farmers market around the corner, the special study spot on campus, the airbnb your friends and you got for your lake trip.

To some of us, home exists purely in memory now. The apartment I grew up in still exists, but only as a shell of its former self. What happens when the place you feel at home no longer exists or belong to you?

Perhaps home is where you’ve experienced change or a place that made you feel safe enough that allowed for change. Nothing grows without foundation.

I’ve been populating this board by myself but this is my plead for everyone to add a place that feels like home to them. I want to hear everyone’s personal home stories.

In return, a bunch of places I’ve felt at
home:

Florentine cafe

Old house in cyanotype

Crappy KC summer apartment with cats

The amtrak to Chicago