Inquiring Sensate Scapes

Abstract

In a time of climatic, ecological and social change, we ask: how can architecture, as an aesthetic category involving perception and meaning-formation, contribute to an understanding of the challenges of our contemporary landscapes? The presented material operates as the first phase of a collaborative project (Sensate Scapes) with architect Lizette Araza Jensen, focusing on materiality, techniques and methods for landscape studies and investigating how the developed material can inform and translate into aesthetic articulations. The project considers mediation as a reciprocal event between the practitioner and the producing, animating, material, and between the aesthetic articulation and the world it inhabits. The work explores the ability of different media and modes of articulation to convey and create encounters between human and more-than-human entities through articulation and visibilization. The aim is to continuously examine and challenge our aesthetic practices to ensure that they remain dynamic and responsive to evolving worlds.

Keywords: landscape, mediators, aesthetics