ABSTRACT
This chapter offers several different methods for employing analogue representational techniques as tools for exploring the complex dynamic relationships that exist between humans and the environment through the making process. Sensory-based landscape stimuli affect the primary ways in which humans interact with their environments. Analyzing site as a place of interaction – social and ecological – exposes the variability and stresses the importance of process-related aspects inherent to any landscape designed for people. With assignments entailing a time-based approach to analogue sketching, the sensatory qualities of the living medium transpire across the page. Developing an in-depth understanding of an existing site often involves historic timelines of events and important figures, photographic inventories, and found drawings such as maps and plans. A hands-on iterative approach to analogue drawing exercises can help to foster personal connections and make a shift from representing a site as a series of features into an investigation of phenomena and human connections impacted by physical space.
