Yesterday, I had my first presentation at the University. Every monday we have a seminar for all the PhD students in Landscape Architecture. I had to present my project, in whatever form it was and explain what I wanted to do with it. It went fairly well and I had a good feedback. I am aware that I am still swimming in ideas rather than developing a proper structure for the work I will eventually had to do.
All in all, I am glad that I had to face this challenge, to actually put my ideas down and explain them to people who will have an opinion on it.
I am still working on a A4 diagram that could explain my study. So far I came up with these two (the pictures are snapshot of my presentation).
The first diagram is a very short summary of what happens between a passive individual and the organic environment he is in, in terms of physiological reaction.
The second one is what we see if we take a closer look at what happens inside, where the environmental perception provokes the physiological response. On one hand we have the evolutionnary theories of instinct, while on the other we have the cultural filters of religion and education. And somewhere in the middle lies the visual experience of nature, maybe both instinctive and acquired.
