Psychiatry Box 002/Pathology Box


The Pathology Box is a tool for investigating urban space via personal moods, and vice versa.
The Box's interior consists of empty containers that will be filled by the box user.
The box's drawer contains simple questions that link personal affects with urban space, such as:
Where in the city would you go if you had just fallen in love? Where would you start a revolution? Which urban material pleases your skin?
Used by one person at a time within one city, the box turns out to be a tool and archive in one:
it makes people look at urban space from a personal point of view and it collects city samples as triggers of intimate moods and feelings. After each filling the box gets emptied and handed over to the next user; the individual contents are translated into maps. These maps can be read as personal city cartographies as well as psycho-cartographies of each box user.