Reclaiming the Soul of Landscape and Reclaiming Landscape for the Soul: the Creation of Arenas for Imaginative Engagement with Place and its Fabric in an Ecologically Challenging, Socially and Politically Charged Environment
This 100% practice-based research project in the field of Social Sculpture has the following aims:
Main Aim:
- to explore the potential of site-specific Social Sculpture projects for developing new sensitivities for nature and community-building with special reference to locally relevant ecological and social issues.
Secondary Aims:
- to investigate processes involved in the creation of site-specific artistic interventions and highlight their relevance for transformative change in the individual, the community and in the wider ecological context of how we shape our environment.
- to devise appropriate Social Sculpture practices for developing an increased awareness of ‚place‘ and to articulate such creative strategies for evolving the potential of these ‚places‘.
- to expand the notion of landscape design through artistic interventions from a Social Sculpture perspective
- to develop creative strategies for the “redemption of water” and the exploration of water‘s transformative potential as a “mediator”