The long-held relationship between images and the understanding or reading of landscape is intertwined in the Western perspective of nature, and is currently being contested. Rightly so, because there are obvious more ways of looking at the landscape through processes or ecology. Nevertheless, in this assignment you are going to make an image of your project.

Since early Italian renaissance the model has been a tool not only for design development and communication but also as a staging of a variety of political ideas and abstract concepts. This unique capacity of the model to embody a world in a single object has since been used as a tool, on many different scales and sites, to celebrate and communicate political and technological progress. (Brejzek and Wallen, the Model as performance, 2018). In this universe, the model is not merely a “real set design” or “depicting real building”, but inherently are a performative and epistemic tool. By acknowledging this performativity, the model becomes an authored, staged and performative space that enters a dialog with the viewer.
 

Staging a Landscape---------
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Teacher
Co-author Sabine Müller and Miguel Hernandez Quintanilla

Scenography is the production of a stage that represents, enacts and puts forward a sense of place. A stage is a combination of technologies and materials creating a place to unfold a play – a plot with diverse characters. This place has spatial depth, light conditions, textures and material compositions and will explore the tactical experience within your proposal.

The step from mapping (portrait) to concept (scenario, bird’s eye view, structure) to space (eye level, scale, materiality) is coined by different degrees of using intellect and intuition, of deriving argument and immersive imagination. You should think of the „Scene“ as a step in the design process that allows you to energise your concepts through elements of intuition, imagination and atmosphere. It could be of a fraction of the space that you have imagined, or the whole.