Landing with Distortion

Abstract

Landing with Distortion reflects on a reconfiguration of Landing, transdisciplinary research that approaches design as a practice of care in foreign mountain landscapes. Rooted in architecture, landscape and artistic research, Landing advances a performative and relational approach attentive to the temporal and material flux of territories, in which knowledge emerges through embodied intra-actions and material agency.

Embodiment has been understood as a form of care enacted through encounters, returns, and moments of absence. In its current iteration, the research asks how embodied knowledge can be sustained when the body is not physically present, and how absence itself can operate as an active space of relation rather than a loss of engagement.

Structured as a visual essay, the work engages operational webcam images of alpine environments, focusing on moments of interference and distortion. Through archiving and material translation, loss and transformation become integral to the research, showing how mediation reconfigures embodied knowledge and how distortion marks the limits through which relations with territory persist.