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Category: Landscape and Ecophilosophy

Finding place, shifting perception: From landscape as image to landscape as cosmology

Posted on June 22, 2022June 7, 2022 by flourishingcommons

While we cannot physically transform the world in 10 days, we can change the way we see the world in 10 days. Shifting the perception of landscapes is the first

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Landscape and Ecophilosophy art, daoism, heidegger, landscape architecture, modernity, phenomenology, placelessness, spirituality and faith, sublime Leave a comment

Finding truth in the “Void” through Chinese landscape painting

Posted on June 15, 2022June 7, 2022 by flourishingcommons

When I first went back to school to study the meaning of landscapes instead of designing landscapes, I was disappointed by what I discovered. I was told that landscapes were

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Art and philosophy, Landscape and Ecophilosophy archetype, art, daoism, heidegger, phenomenology Leave a comment

Ways of seeing the world: The relationship between subject and object

Posted on May 18, 2022June 6, 2022 by flourishingcommons

While famous philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty took different phenomenological approaches to understanding and structuring methods of studying human experience, phenomenology as an everyday concept can still feel

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Introduction to phenomenology for environmental design

Posted on May 11, 2022June 6, 2022 by flourishingcommons

“Experience” is important because experience is the basic unit of our existence. Despite the unlimited potential of what we can experience, our awareness of how we experience, however, is constrained

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Romanticism and nostalgia: The modern condition

Posted on March 30, 2022June 6, 2022 by flourishingcommons

I believe that to be passionate about landscapes, you must inevitably also be a romantic. Yet, being a romantic means being stuck in paradoxes: to desire authenticity in an illusive

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Art and philosophy, Landscape and Ecophilosophy art, colonialism, modernity, nostalgia, placelessness, romanticism Leave a comment

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This blog consists of musings I have about the world, excerpts from my PhD dissertation, and re-postings of articles from a previous blog. I mainly write about spirituality, landscape, art, and philosophy.

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