How can a landscape have a
voice?
Voice Landscapes
Cultivating attention to the relationships that bring places into being
Why "Voice Landscapes"?
A landscape is often understood as something we see.
A voice is often understood as something we hear.
Voice Landscapes invites us to expand both.
Landscapes are not simply visual scenery but living constellations of relationships.
Voices are not simply speech but the diverse forms of expression through which humans and more-than-human beings participate in the emergence of place.
Voice Landscapes is an invitation to attend to those relationships.
What counts as a voice?
Computers have become ubiquitous in almost every facet of our lives. At work, desk jockeys spend hours in front of their desktops, while delivery people scan bar codes with handhelds and workers in the field stay in touch with the central office via their notebooks.
How do we learn with places?
Computers have become ubiquitous in almost every facet of our lives. At work, desk jockeys spend hours in front of their desktops, while delivery people scan bar codes with handhelds and workers in the field stay in touch with the central office via their notebooks.
The Voice Landscapes methodology
A living methodology that moves through six expanding movements, each carrying the relationships of the previous ones into the next.
Encounter
What calls to us?
Something or someone enters our field of experience and calls our attention.
Attend
What do we notice?
We slow down. We listen and sense. We become attuned to the place we inhabit.
Relate
How do we become part of a place?
We enter an ecology of attention and embody our place within it.
Become
What might we become?
We shape and are shaped by what we encounter, attend to, and relate to.
Create
What takes form?
What emerges through relationship takes form: artworks, soundscapes, maps, oral histories, texts, objects. We let imagination open new possibilities.
Return
How can we give back?
We return what has emerged to the world through exhibitions, encounters and living archives that cultivate new relationships.
Learning is complete only when it returns to the relationships from which it emerged
Every return creates the possibility of a new encounter.
Participate. Apply the methodology.