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== Project development == | == Project development == | ||
During the ''Winning Natural Habitats'' course, we developed a deeper awareness of our natural environment by small field trips and regular exchange as well as creating a biotope at the Campus | During the ''Winning Natural Habitats'' course, we developed a deeper awareness of our natural environment by small field trips and regular exchange as well as creating a biotope at the Campus. Initially, I envisioned a project that would incorporate various technologies to transform photographs and self-written texts - inspired by our course - into an interactive installation. | ||
Reading ''Gathering Moss'' by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a recommended text from the course, deepened my understanding of how language shapes our perception of nature. Kimmerer uses the world of mosses to illustrate that even the smallest microorganisms are active participants in our ecosystems, just like forests and entire biomes - all shaped by the same environmental factors. I found a certain, powerful poetry in the way small-scale phenomena can be translated into a broader context and vice versa. | Reading ''Gathering Moss'' by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a recommended text from the course, deepened my understanding of how language shapes our perception of nature. Kimmerer uses the world of mosses to illustrate that even the smallest microorganisms are active participants in our ecosystems, just like forests and entire biomes - all shaped by the same environmental factors. I found a certain, powerful poetry in the way small-scale phenomena can be translated into a broader context and vice versa. | ||