Output of the funded project
Where Freedom Walked
Reflections recorded in place at historic Underground Railroad sites. The first stories in the atlas, and the raw material for everything it builds next.
Open Where Freedom WalkedEmpathy Atlas
Every point
is a person.
Empathy Atlas turns data and maps into empathy, a growing atlas of human stories, so we can live inside each other’s realities.
The spectrum of human emotion, touching the layers of story.
Every point
is a person, not a record
Every layer
a lived reality, held with care
One atlas
many experiences feed it
How the atlas listens
We map stories the way people tell them.
Empathy Atlas is a shared system that many projects feed into. Each one gathers human stories in a place, ties them to the emotions they carry, and adds them to one growing atlas you can explore.
01 — Listen
Stories, in place
People reflect where their history happened. We record with care, leading with the human before the number.
02 — Map
Colored by emotion
Words sit on the map colored by the feeling they carry and sized by how often they were shared, the Empathy Atlas emotion system.
03 — Explore
Map, XR & VR
Move through the stories, in a map or immersed, where words whisper at a distance and clear as you approach.
The emotion system
Feeling is the layer that connects us.
Six core emotions expand into the words people actually use. Choose a word and the stories that carry it flow out, the core interaction across every Empathy Atlas experience.
See the emotion wheelExperiences
Different doors into the same atlas.
Where Freedom Walked and Liberation Lines are the two experiences of the funded project today, with more in planning.
Extends the conceptBuilt on the project’s models
Liberation Lines
People map their family across three generations and watch their line join a whole community lit across the map, carrying the concept to living families.
Open Liberation LinesJoin the atlas
Help us hold more of each other’s stories.
The atlas grows with every voice. Add your line, partner with us, or support the work that keeps it free and community-owned.