Voices in Nature: A Sensory Experience of the Hatertse and Overasseltse vennen
(2022)
author(s): Maarten Hendrik Jan Bekhuis
published in: Research Catalogue
As part of the Visual Ethnography master’s at Leiden University, this interactive website invites you to join my interlocutors and me to walk, hear and see with us the Hatertse and Overasseltse fens (near Nijmegen). After four months of fieldwork – I conducted semi-structured interviews, recorded collaborative footage and performed sensory walks – I studied human-nature relationships of educated individuals with extensive knowledge of this area. In presenting the various experiences, I analysed four workable concepts (wind, noise, crowdedness, and pathways) that shape the immersive perception of visitors. This interactive website and creative methodologies used provided me as a visual anthropologist with possibilities to research human-nature encounters within the epoch characterised as the Anthropocene. So, walk with us and experience this extraordinary environment!
Porto informal
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Ana Miriam Rebelo
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Porto Informal is the ongoing visual archive of the research project Visual and semantic identities of the city of Porto: an ascertainment of the contributions of informal dwelling, conducted by Ana Miriam Rebelo, in the context of her PhD in Design.
This visual ethnography project documents informal participation in the production of public space, stemming from domestic space, in the city of Porto. A typological organisation of the images enables the comprehension of different aspects that characterise informal practices and aesthetics in these places.
A functional typology allows us to see which elements constitute this type of urban environment, ranging from houses to post boxes. A processual typology distinguishes different types of gestures through which these places are produced, from construction to personalisation. The aesthetic typologies, of a more interpretative nature, propose a synthesis of the aesthetic and semantic character of these places, supported by the analysis of informal conversations held with residents, about their dwelling experiences.