Abstract
How can we explore the qualities and characteristics of local landscapes? How can we create tools a notations that enable shared reflections about what is perceived as unique in a given landscape?
In this presentation, I will share a log-book exercise tool developed to curate engagement with the landscape through embodied awareness and drawing notations. The log-book consist of a series of pre-printed pages that prompt certain actions and behaviors in the landscape allowing the user to immerse into specific perception modalities. Like a performance, the protagonist follow recopies for positioning, sensing observing and recording landscape site qualities.
This exercise is about looking and sensing - immersing yourself into the landscape and unpacking the spatial characteristics through our embodied encounter - without judgment or evaluation of what is good or bad. We simply engage with a ‘beginners mind’ open and curious observing ‘what is’. You focus is on observation registering material and immaterial qualities and characteristics and how it feels to be an embodied human in this space. You discover the site through your own eye level experiences tracing materialities, patterns, shapes, atmospheres, and fluxes. Through drawings, diagrams and notations you capture and communicate discovered sensed and hidden characteristics.
The exploration is personal and introvert focusing merely on the individual perception to intensify awareness of embodied relation to the landscape. But when the group regather the multiple individual discoveries become a collective recording of what is particular to a given landscape. The many journeys unfold as a plethora of observations capturing both commonalities and unique characteristics. The log-book pages can be read and presented both along as individual journeys and across the themed notations.
The tool enable individual in depth discoveries as well as shared reflections of what a particular site is and what some of its core values are. It allows for a perspective and connection to site that goes beyond pre conceived assumptions and enable all participants to go deep on their own and to share their discoveries collectively.
The log book exercise draws on performance art as well as phenomenological approaches to landscape discoveries. The tool was created in 2011 and has been continuously evolved and adjusted to allow for new types of explorations and notations. The tool has been tested on landscape architecture students in both Denmark and USA as well as groups of international performance artists.
Next step is to create ongoing workshops investigating a peri-industrial site in transition with both residents and visitors as a way to discover what essential and noteworthy qualities and heritage memories are at play and give voice to what should be kept and cared for in future scenarios for the site.
In this presentation, I will share a log-book exercise tool developed to curate engagement with the landscape through embodied awareness and drawing notations. The log-book consist of a series of pre-printed pages that prompt certain actions and behaviors in the landscape allowing the user to immerse into specific perception modalities. Like a performance, the protagonist follow recopies for positioning, sensing observing and recording landscape site qualities.
This exercise is about looking and sensing - immersing yourself into the landscape and unpacking the spatial characteristics through our embodied encounter - without judgment or evaluation of what is good or bad. We simply engage with a ‘beginners mind’ open and curious observing ‘what is’. You focus is on observation registering material and immaterial qualities and characteristics and how it feels to be an embodied human in this space. You discover the site through your own eye level experiences tracing materialities, patterns, shapes, atmospheres, and fluxes. Through drawings, diagrams and notations you capture and communicate discovered sensed and hidden characteristics.
The exploration is personal and introvert focusing merely on the individual perception to intensify awareness of embodied relation to the landscape. But when the group regather the multiple individual discoveries become a collective recording of what is particular to a given landscape. The many journeys unfold as a plethora of observations capturing both commonalities and unique characteristics. The log-book pages can be read and presented both along as individual journeys and across the themed notations.
The tool enable individual in depth discoveries as well as shared reflections of what a particular site is and what some of its core values are. It allows for a perspective and connection to site that goes beyond pre conceived assumptions and enable all participants to go deep on their own and to share their discoveries collectively.
The log book exercise draws on performance art as well as phenomenological approaches to landscape discoveries. The tool was created in 2011 and has been continuously evolved and adjusted to allow for new types of explorations and notations. The tool has been tested on landscape architecture students in both Denmark and USA as well as groups of international performance artists.
Next step is to create ongoing workshops investigating a peri-industrial site in transition with both residents and visitors as a way to discover what essential and noteworthy qualities and heritage memories are at play and give voice to what should be kept and cared for in future scenarios for the site.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Publikationsdato | 2025 |
| Antal sider | 1 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2025 |
| Begivenhed | 2025 IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress: Guiding Landscpes - Nantes, Frankrig Varighed: 10 sep. 2025 → 12 sep. 2025 https://www.ifla2025.com/ |
Konference
| Konference | 2025 IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress |
|---|---|
| Land/Område | Frankrig |
| By | Nantes |
| Periode | 10/09/2025 → 12/09/2025 |
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