Experiencing Cultural Landscapes

Here are some concepts we are getting more and more familiar with:

Time/Duration/

Time/Meaning/Intensity

Spacial involvement

Media and Technological Consistency/Technology awareness

Sensorial and Cognitive Triggers/Immersiveness and Interactivity

Meaning/Symbols and Virtuality

Appliability and Civil Critical Potentiality

Memory of Site Behaviors and Systematic Public and Private Learning/Sharable Memories/Surveys/Data Retrieval

The following images are hints to understand some of our responses to these main issues.

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Images from Giardino Sonoro’s environmental installations. Public pre-nonlinearly composed and interactive sound experiences.

Visits at the Giardino Sonoro’s multisensorial installation A Sonic Garden in Paris. Paris, Nuite Blanche 2006.

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Visits at GSLI, 2005.

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Visits (70.000 visitors in the rain) at the Giardino Sonoro’ s multisensorial installation Possible Cities, CUARTEL GENERAL DEL EJERCITO, La noche en blanco 2007, Madrid (Esp).

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If you compare the different typologies of experience lived by the visitors in Paris, Firenze (GSLI lab) and Madrid, you immediately notice that a 70.000 people human flow was too much for our Madrid installation. The game of wonder, the surprise, the welcome, were relevant interpretation keys but could not guarantee sufficient freedom to visitors in building their own city sound and media visions. An immersive and multisensorial installation cannot be an event, or better, can also last 1 night but its meanings have to access the door of personal time and space, a new dimension where each one can reconstruct a possible city.