Abstract

This paper focuses on matters of scales in the project Landscape in Motion, which involves creative research in the fields of landscape design and performing/digital arts. Landscape in Motion acts as an interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationship between urban infrastructures and the human scale, and it aims to define an innovative site-sensitive methodology for both urban design processes and site-based arts. Within the project, movement and dance act as a focal point to evaluate and highlight the social/environmental value of urban infrastructures. Integral to the project is the defining of an interdisciplinary lexicon as well as the development of a novel annotation system, ‘score-maps’. Framed by a brief description of our developing methodology, the paper discusses the challenges and possibilities of crafting a system of multi-media representations that capture the scale of the human body and the larger site to inform both landscape design and choreographic creation processes.

Keywords

Landscape design, Site-specific dance, Spatial scale, City choreography

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Scaling up and down: Landscape design processes and choreographic inquiry

This paper focuses on matters of scales in the project Landscape in Motion, which involves creative research in the fields of landscape design and performing/digital arts. Landscape in Motion acts as an interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationship between urban infrastructures and the human scale, and it aims to define an innovative site-sensitive methodology for both urban design processes and site-based arts. Within the project, movement and dance act as a focal point to evaluate and highlight the social/environmental value of urban infrastructures. Integral to the project is the defining of an interdisciplinary lexicon as well as the development of a novel annotation system, ‘score-maps’. Framed by a brief description of our developing methodology, the paper discusses the challenges and possibilities of crafting a system of multi-media representations that capture the scale of the human body and the larger site to inform both landscape design and choreographic creation processes.

 

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