A new ATM in Whangarei will focus on how you feel rather than how much money you have.
Moodbank - a public art project with Wellington roots - is an ATM-style machine which asks passers by to "deposit" how they are feeling, with a list of more than 1000 emotions to choose from. The data is then fed into a system which analyses the overall mood of the city.
The ATM is being brought to Whangarei today by TogetherTahi, a collective focused on citizen engagement and community well-being, which is putting up candidates in Whangarei's urban wards in the coming local government election.
We'll be able to spatially map the moods of Whangarei.
Spokesman Ash Holwell said the idea was to provide an alternative discourse to the obsession with "economic growth" which often dominated in politics.