Athique Winterbottom, Anushka and Lammin, Hannah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9752-9335 (2024) Landscape encounters. In: Wild Research, 13-14 Sep 2024, The Rev altar Wall of Death, Glasgow.

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Abstract

Landscapes emerge through entangled multi-species encounters – interactions between microscopic and macroscopic entities that are iterated across different spatial and temporal scales (Gan and Tsing, 2023). Humans are critical agents in ecosystems and our cultures impact the environment profoundly, even in the ‘wildest’ of places. Yet these entanglements are so pervasive that they can be difficult to perceive, raising questions about what methods we can use to create shared models that will enable us to empathise with other beings we encounter in the landscape, and ultimately to reinstate a sustainable relationship with the ecosystems we operate within.

Landscape Encounters is a participatory-creative-practice-action-research project, which explores situated and embodied ways of engaging with landscapes through sensing, movement and making. The methodology, inspired by decolonial pedagogies, takes diverse lived experiences as a starting point for the co-production of knowledge. It is informed by the concept of umwelt (von Uexküll,1934) – the phenomenal world of an entity entailing both its perceptions of its surroundings and the effects it has on this environment. Participants reflect on the form of their own umwelts as they move through and observe the landscape, and work together to imagine the umwelts of other types of beings they encounter (animals, plants, fungi). They then experiment with altering their sensoria to experience inhabiting the landscape otherwise, creating bodily attachments using a selection of simple materials to amplify or occlude particular senses, or re-shape body parts to change how they affect/are affected by their surroundings. The practice engenders an experiential knowing-with, which attunes participants to the landscape’s diverse cultures through their own wildness.

The presentation shares what we learned from our first Landscape Encounter – a residential workshop in a woodland setting – in the form of photographic documentation, sketches and the bodily attachments, which the audience are invited to touch and try on.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	landscape, embodiment, Umwelt, more-than-human, participatory creative practice action research
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
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Last Modified:	28 Feb 2025 12:58
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49902

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