Tag: nature

Friluftsliv is both the practice of purposefully spending significant amounts of time outdoors and the emotion that this practice engenders.

When we feel ecoanxiety, we feel the pressure of global environmental destruction closing around us, squeezing all hope out of us as we realize the extent to which the ecological crisis is out of our control.

A still mountain lake, reflecting the peaks and forests around it, like a mirror, unperturbed by any wind: This is the image that comes to mind to define the emotion of tranquility. Another… more emotion Tranquility

Panic is named after the half-human, half-animal Greek god Pan, who was said to have the ability to inspire an irresistable, desperate urge to run away, as if a terrifying doom was about… more emotion Panic

Skantherm is a company in Germany that manufactures fireplaces designed to fit within a modernist setting. There is one fireplace they sell, essentially a large black vertical tube, designed by a professor, called… more emotion Peiskos

People are animals, evolved on a wild planet. Yet, in recent generations, the majority of human life is experienced apart from nature. Under the COVID-19 pandemic, this separation from the natural world was… more emotion Chrysalism

One of the fundamental flaws of the Emotion AI products being developed by companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google is that their automated algorithms decontextualize human feelings. Scanning our faces or measuring our… more emotion Biophilia