about scapes

.scapes is a project for the research into and perception of landscapes which are always a rich entity of mental and material images of space. Using the instrument of art, science and landscape planning, the project seeks to advance a conscious feeling for the landscape.

By exploring landscapes, .scapes not only detects original shapes of the territory but also the changes it experiences through human, technical and artificial intrusions.

What we commonly understand as landscape thereby comes under closer scrutiniy; it is focused on sophisticatedly as the result of actual human interferences, changes and designs and its historical, anthropological and economic emergence are emphasised without wanting to imply judgement.

.scapes seeks to open access to landscape in the most varied form possible, to unfold its complexity and to cociously heighten sensibility of the public to landscapes.

Alongside science and literature, it is art which, as an instrument for beholding landscape, can give most valuable views and analyses and can draw attention to the special connection between the subject and its surroundings.

Discussion groups, workshops and series of lectures, will broaden in this sense, the spectrum of .scapes. With the excursion-series "creeping landscapes" .scapes continues its exploration of landscapes and the oppotunities of landscapes in the year of 2004.

The catalogue .scapes of the quarterly magazine "Atlas" of the INU Alto Adige South Tyrol Nr. 26 in March 2004 documents the project .scapes in its breadth and content and events to date, using foto-material from the exhibition "Alpine landscapes in upheaval", as well as text, contributions and interviews. Another atlas, presenting the future focus points and accompanying the programm is already in the planning stages, as well as a large-scale publication which will carry the project and its widely varying explorations.