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The project Mind The Kiss has been During the project field work, the Plovdiv Love Map aims to be Mind The Kiss a photographic and physical data collection activities were both an occasion for the Affective map of the city of Plovdiv journey through symbolic places of performed through anonymous Plovdivians to drift in a

CESCOT love and affection in the city of interviews and a social media sentimental journey through their VENETO With Mind The Kiss, past, present and Plovdiv. Cartography has been the campaign on the project platform memories and an opportunity to future come together in an way to trace the transformation of on Facebook (Mind The Kiss provide tourists with a different emotional geography whose the city, to sensitise memory, history Plovdiv). Based on the collected interpretation of the city. It is an protagonists are citizens! and common values, using different stories, the photographer Sabrina alternative way to understand methods of reading, analysing and Bellenzier recorded her personal the city not only by its buildings building both contemporary reality interpretation of the locations and monuments but through its and the past. The Plovdivians have mentioned by the project subjective value, made of people, been involved in an exercise of participants. The results of these emotions and experiences. FILIPOVO recalling life memories connected to activities have been displayed in the most diverse places in the city, an exhibition at Community Centre 1 where they exchanged a significant (Chitalishte) "Aleko Konstantinov" kiss. from 6 April to 5 May, 2019. KARSHAKA GAGARIN PLOVDIV ZAHARNA FABRIKA

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