Let the Trees ‘Talk’: Giving Voice to Nature through an Immersive Experience

WORLD Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI:10.3390/world5020017
Rob Roggema
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Current decision-making regarding urban design, architecture, and spatial planning oftenemphasizes existing power balances, which historically have excluded other humans, such asindigenous people, and nature from conversations and decision-making. The purpose of this studyis to explore if and how an empathic experience could give insights into how nature can be givena voice, and, more concretely, how a group of trees on the TEC campus in Monterrey would feelabout a sudden change in their direct environment. The methodology is divided into three parts.The first is the explanation of the case study and immersion of the (human) participants in the site.The second stage consists of deep listening and reproducing the imagined expressions of the trees.In the third stage, the participants return from the site, evaluate, and formulate a manifesto. Theexperience suggests that it is possible to inspire human beings to imagine what trees would have tosay if we only imagined their language. It also shows that it is possible to gain access to a formerlyhidden environment. The conclusion is that the empathic access to these formerly muted worlds,such as those of nature or socially marginalized peoples, can strengthen our understanding of, andour ability to resolve, the current environmental crisis.
让树木 "说话":通过沉浸式体验为大自然发声
当前有关城市设计、建筑和空间规划的决策往往强调现有的权力平衡,而这种权力平衡在历史上曾将其他人类(如土著居民)和大自然排除在对话和决策之外。本研究的目的是探讨移情体验能否以及如何让人们了解如何让大自然发出声音,更具体地说,探讨蒙特雷 TEC 校园中的一群树木对其直接环境的突然改变有何感受。方法分为三个部分:第一阶段是解释案例研究,让(人类)参与者沉浸在现场;第二阶段是深入倾听,再现树木的想象表达;第三阶段是参与者从现场返回,进行评估,并制定一份宣言。这次体验表明,如果我们能够想象树木的语言,就有可能启发人类想象树木会说些什么。它还表明,我们有可能进入以前被隐藏的环境。我们的结论是,以感同身受的方式进入这些以前被掩盖的世界,如大自然或社会边缘人群的世界,可以加强我们对当前环境危机的理解和解决能力。
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