ABSTRACT

This chapter presents ideas regarding how people interface with the environment where interaction is referred to as the choreography of the landscape experience, a term which describes the nature and purpose of engagement that expresses a form of a dialogue between people and place. It discusses how experience is scripted by sensory responses, innate biophilic connections and personal factors. Findings are identified through the use of self-recorded narratives where the participants essentially talk to themselves, and in doing so are able to verbalise the thought processes and the related environmental cues that underpin the experience. Analysis of these narratives provides ample evidence of the sophistication and importance of individual choreographies, including the emotional and environmental contexts which are involved, and relate to the qualities of the landscape being experienced, how these processes are prompted, including the spatial and personal constructs concerned.