Same Feeling Different Object, interactive emotional clustering installation

Object Recognition
Selected object preview

Camera for Teachable Machine

No object detected
Object Name
Where is it from? Specific place/source
What does this object make you feel?
Emotional tokens
Will appear after submit

Same Feeling,
Different Object

AI Powered Design · Workshop Installation

What is this?

An interactive installation that maps what people feel through everyday objects. You bring an object, real or remembered, describe what it makes you feel, and watch it join a living collective map alongside strangers from across the world who carry the same emotion in a completely different thing.

How it works

When you submit, the system reads your description and looks past the surface story. It searches for the underlying emotional pattern, not the object itself. Your entry is then placed on the map next to others who share that same emotional core, regardless of what object they brought or where they came from.

The emotional clusters

Refusing to quit: objects tied to endurance, pushing through, not giving up.
Permission: objects that make you feel allowed to begin, be imperfect, or try.
Sanctuary: objects that create a private space, away from expectation or performance.
Connection: objects that hold the presence of someone else, or a sense of belonging.
Identity: objects that tell you, or remind you, who you are.

The reframe

After you submit, the system offers a reframe: a sharp, honest reading of what your object is actually doing for you. Not therapy. Not comfort. A mirror.

Two views

Emotion view groups dots by emotional inheritance. Location view places them on a soft world map by country, while the specific source tells the object’s local story.