Inside Out: Urban Environments as Crossroads of Emotions

Inside Out: Urban Environments as Crossroads of Emotions examined the interconnections between emotional life, the city, and its visual representations. Drawing on the “emotional turn” in the humanities (Boddice 2018; Lemmings and Brooks 2014), the discussion approached emotions not as fleeting, private states but as historical and spatial agents that structure perception, imagination, and collective life. The city was considered a dense emotional field, a crossroad where anticipation, anxiety, outrage, longing, and detachment emerge, intersect, and transform both the built environment and urban representations.