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 Klaus Klaas Loehnart Picture This: Experienced landscapes are places were 'time thickens' Harvard University, USA 1999, 4' Mental topographies (or landscapes) - are spaces that are thinkable but not necessarily localizable that lie beyond every apparent physical topography of urban space. This phenomenon can be linked to the concept of cognitive maps? spatial representations that are not necessarily picturable but nonetheless laconic and communicable. Three short-videos (10 min each) describe the intervention between cognitive topographies of an individual pedestrian and the physical topographies of the surrounding city? a temporal process, enacted through the act of walking. These videos illuminate three paradigmatic situations in the city. Walking#1 reflects on architectural space and its tectonics of movement, Walking #2 on cultural landscapes in the city and Walking #3 on infrastructural pedestrian networks underneath the ground. These spatial practices are connecting point A with point B, following with the reversed movement back to point A. The character of these spatial pedestrian movements are distinct from other practices such as the flaneur's stroll or the situationist's wandering through the city. The deterministic structure A-B-A recalls those repetitive and habitual practices that constitute the urban space of everyday life. Klaus Klaas Loenhart was born in 1965. He holds Master's degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture as well as in History and Theory of Architecture. He is currently Teaching Fellow for Landscape Architectural Theory at Harvard University. "Picture This:" was presented first at the Ausstellungsforum in Munich in November 1999. |
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