Bio Mapping


Bio Map from Suomenlinna Finland


Old Maps

In 2004 when I first initated the program I built my own visulisation software that used scanned paper maps to provide the geographic layer. Arousal was shown as graduated coloured dots from green = low arousal to red = high arousal.


Bio Map from Kensington London

Walk in Hyde park. The green dots in the park as well as the red dots near the Albert Memorial are worth noting.

Bio Map from Kensington London

Another walk in Hyde Park.

Bio Map from Kensington London

Walk along a busy road.

Communal Maps

Bio Map from Kensington London

Kensington Emotion Map - 40 participants

Bio Map from Kensington London

Nottingham Emotion Map - 45 participants

Bio Map from Kensington London

Early attempt at creating a communal arousal surface. The peaks represent arousal hotpoints

Bio Map from Kensington London

Communal arousal surface with name annotations.

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Last Updated 22.08.07

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Hello I need to get feedback from people about what they think about the Bio Mapping project. Please help by filling out this online form. Thanks so much !!!

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I am in Tokyo speaking and running a Bio Mapping workshop at the Dislocate 07 conference. Come and join us if you are around.

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Link to all the press coveage

The San Francisco Emotion Map is complete. At the end of July I will be Bio Mapping in Tokyo. Until then I am working on my book and setting up a project in Stockport and Stoke Newington. Please see my main site for more info.

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There is a new interview about the Bio Mapping project.

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Bio Mapping has won the SciArt R&D award which will give me time to write a book about the project and commission some critical / historical essays around the project. If you are intersted in writing one get in touch!

Live interview on WAMU US public radio.

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New articles about Bio Mapping on the Discovery Channel the New Scientist and on Slashdot in the German Telepolis, Italian MondoGIS , French Liberation and Techno Science as well as British Council magazine

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A high quality MPEG4 video of the Greenwich Emotion Map is available for download

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I was interviewed on BBC World Service and NewsTalk106. See Tom Hagler's walk in Covent Garden.
(requires Google Earth)

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The Observer carries an article on Bio Mapping. Click on the links to view David Smith's walks in rural Bibury as well as 'Murder Mile' in Hackney.
(requires Google Earth)