What's this about ≈

Cities are more than buildings and roads. They are emotional landscapes where identity, memory, and struggle meet.

In a world that spins faster every day, people often don’t have the time, space, or even a little nudge to say what they really feel about the places they call home. Urban Porträits responds by offering a digital archive, a space where anyone can pause, reflect, and share their urban experience.

Contributions can take many forms. A letter, a drawing, a poem, a video, or a collage. Each entry carries the city, the year, and the age of the contributor, and can be shared anonymously or with a name.

Every entry becomes part of a living gallery of city life, searchable by theme, location, or feeling.

Over time, Urban Porträits grows into a collective memory of cities, revealing emotional patterns and the geographies of our time. It helps us understand how we navigate belonging, identity, and space in today’s complex world.

It offers researchers, artists, and everyday citizens a glimpse into what it feels like to live here, now.

That’s the essence of the project. It isn’t polished. It isn’t finished. And that’s exactly what makes it human.