Happy City Denver Experiments
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Does the way we commute affect how generous we are? And what happens when city dwellers share their feelings and personal burdens with complete strangers? Happy City explored these questions with the Denver Theatre District and contemporary artist Stuart Semple in two very different social experiments. Both were part of Happy City Denver, a citywide, six-week series of art interventions that launched in May 2018. We discovered some interesting answers.… Continue reading
Small scale interventions have become a popular way to enhance public life in cities. How do they influence our feelings and behaviour? This question inspired Happy City to create an experiment in Vancouver, Canada to measure the effect that colourful or lush interventions have on people’s wellbeing. In particular, the experiment sought to understand how urban design influences people’s sense of trust in strangers, their feelings of happiness and their… 
Two kinds of temple, Shanghai. Guess where most people do their worshipping. 