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When I teach observation, I go through the following...
One of the key areas for design for external environments (like the garden for example) is to get a sense of place, heightening your senses, hearing, touch, smelling, looking. The latter one needs to be done last to engage all the other senses as the visual aspect of observation can cloud those other senses.
Close your eyes, feel the wind on your cheeks (whereβs it coming from), cup your ears and move your hands over your ears to focus sounds from behind to in front (where is the sound coming from, what is it, natural, man made, try and identify it), try some gentle breathing exercises through your nose and take a breath to understand what you might be taking in. Use your hands and feet (especially if you're barefoot) and feel. Now open your eyes with a new vision enhanced by the other awakened senses. Look about and try and identify what your other senses detected, engage a whole view and listen to your senses, what are they telling you.
We then start reading the landscape, looking at trees to sense the wind shaping, the land shapes, air, frost and water flows, where shadow falls, frost moves and dwells, etc.
Patrick Whitefield wrote a great book on reading the landscape through plants which you might find of interest https://g.co/kgs/WDUtHG.
#Permaculture
When I teach observation, I go through the following...
One of the key areas for design for external environments (like the garden for example) is to get a sense of place, heightening your senses, hearing, touch, smelling, looking. The latter one needs to be done last to engage all the other senses as the visual aspect of observation can cloud those other senses.
Close your eyes, feel the wind on your cheeks (whereβs it coming from), cup your ears and move your hands over your ears to focus sounds from behind to in front (where is the sound coming from, what is it, natural, man made, try and identify it), try some gentle breathing exercises through your nose and take a breath to understand what you might be taking in. Use your hands and feet (especially if you're barefoot) and feel. Now open your eyes with a new vision enhanced by the other awakened senses. Look about and try and identify what your other senses detected, engage a whole view and listen to your senses, what are they telling you.
We then start reading the landscape, looking at trees to sense the wind shaping, the land shapes, air, frost and water flows, where shadow falls, frost moves and dwells, etc.
Patrick Whitefield wrote a great book on reading the landscape through plants which you might find of interest https://g.co/kgs/WDUtHG.
#Permaculture