The main project evolves around a typical Humanities question: What is a house to you?. Although not always aware of, each one of us has a different connotation to a basic word like this. Seemingly a very simple question, it turns out to be complex to give an answer as everyone has their own take on the concept of a house. On the website the user has to answer this question by choosing one of the three images each representing a different type of house. The next step is to choose three out of six images which represent six concepts closely related to the surroundings of a house.
The user input is stored and according to the choice made, a map of Europe is shown displaying what type of house users from European countries chose. After this, the chosen concepts are used to search in the dataset the Dutch government has made public openoverheid.org. A statistical table presents the choices correlated with the data from the d