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+ | Humans as a species operate within a framework of symbolic representation that enables us to articulate ideas, share ideas, plan, design, make decisions, and reflect. We associate this with literacy, but for the majority of human evolution, we used very different frameworks, sometimes even the landscape itself to organise thought. All over the world cultures associated knowledge to features in the landscape; the Aboriginal songlines of Australia, the Native American pilgrimage trails, and the Neolithic causeways and henges of Europe. This is landscape as mind-palace. Bringing practices together from a wide range of sources I’ve been experimenting in my area of Amsterdam with these almost entirely forgotten ‘techniques’ of ‘applied animism' | ||
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==== Monster Code ==== | ==== Monster Code ==== | ||
- | //Monster// refers to imagination. //Code// refers to encoding things geographically. The name is an adaptation of [[memory_code]] the title of the book by Lynne Kelley, on ways of encoding environmental, | + | //Monster// refers to imagination. //Code// refers to encoding things geographically. The name is an adaptation of [[memory_code]] the title of the book by Lynne Kelley, on ways of encoding environmental, |
* monster: **our memory of character**: | * monster: **our memory of character**: | ||
* code: **our memory for geography**: | * code: **our memory for geography**: | ||
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=== current walks: === | === current walks: === | ||
- | * timeline of US presidents encoded into shopping street (Jan Evertsenstraat, | + | * timeline of **US presidents** encoded into shopping street (Jan Evertsenstraat, |
- | * timeline of hominids encoded into opposite side of shopping street (each block 1 million years) (Jan Evertsenstraat, | + | * timeline of **hominids** and **European Proboscidea** |
- | * mindpalace of damselflies (into branch structure of tree at FoAM's MidWest garden) | + | * mindpalace of Dutch **damselflies** (into branch structure of tree at FoAM's MidWest garden) |
=== structures: === | === structures: === | ||
- | * areas: to encode important instances, moments, ideas, entities | + | |
- | * places: to encode important instances, moments, ideas, entities | + | |
- | * entities (monsters): help embody important details when there is little in terms of features available on location | + | |
- | * lines (of places or areas): to encode a sequence of any kind | + | |
- | * cycles: anything that has no beginning or end, but does have an order | + | |
- | * branches: lines that fork, for example for related plant-families, | + | |
* combinations of the above | * combinations of the above | ||
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* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
* ceremonial roads of the Pacific Islands | * ceremonial roads of the Pacific Islands | ||
- | * neolithic causeways and henges of Europe | + | * neolithic causeways, processional avenues |
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Data sets: | Data sets: | ||
* European elephants | * European elephants | ||
- | * 10 famous female pirates | + | * 10 famous |
* 3 flooded villages | * 3 flooded villages | ||
* recipe for sandcookies | * recipe for sandcookies | ||
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* thinging, the idea that humans think with and through material things[6] | * thinging, the idea that humans think with and through material things[6] | ||
* neuroarchaeology, | * neuroarchaeology, | ||
+ | * see also [[https:// | ||
==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ==== | ==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ==== |