Phenomenal Land

Experience a Phenomenal Site Analysis Process.

Landscape is an inner and outer topography that weaves between the path of your life and the road you live on. We listen for the whole story of the land, seeking to understand how we build today exists as a function of past and future generations. We honor the ancestors, the genius loci (spirit of the land), and offer our creative genius in service and devotion to the land.

JULY 10 -19

ONLINE
JULY 10-13 [ 5-7p EST ]
Meditate, Listen, Map, Discuss

ONSITE: Berkshires, Massachusetts
JULY 15-19 [ 5 DAY RETREAT ]
Give, Receive, Offer, Empower, Heal

  • TOPICS:
    • Connect to the Spirit of Place (Genius Loci) through meditation and drawing
    • Create a series of phenomenological maps that archive your experience of site
    • Learn to identify and differentiate the causes for the “felt sense” of space and place.
    • Learn the Historical and Theoretical context for Land Healing in both Eastern and Western traditions.
    • Understand the difference between land healing and home clearing.
    • Learn the basics of reading land remotely.
    • Work with partners to practice reading each other’s land.

    LECTURES:
    Week 1: Connecting to the Spirit of the Land
    Map: Phenomenal Plan

    Week 2: Identifying the Phenomena
    Map: Phenomenal Section

    Week 3: Organizing the Phenomena
    Map: Phenomenal Strategy

    Week 4: Constructing the Order of Operations

  • Onsite:

    • Experience and participate in a land healing!

    • Verify phenomena identified remotely with onsite as-built conditions.

    •Learn to see the land through en plein air studies and meditation

    • Receive a Basic Activation to start to transform phenomena

    •Learn to use essential land healing tools such as the dowsing rod, pendulum.

    • Learn the basics of reading the energy of the land and home.

  • • Feng Shui/Kan Yu (Wind/Water | Heaven/Earth)

    • Geomancy

    • Contemporary Art, Landscape Painting. En Plein Air.

    • Architectural Ornament

    • Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning

    • Philosophy: Phenomenology of Architecture

    • Geology, geography, oceanography, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology

    • Archaeoastronomy is the interdisciplinary[1] or multidisciplinary[2] study of how people in the past “have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures”

    •Landscape archaeology is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them.

    Integration of Geomantic techniques with contemporary art and architectural approaches

    • to increase the accessibility, poetry, creativity, cross-disciplinarity, and scope of the work.

    • Reframing the client intake process and creating multiple bridges to current practices, conversations, and archival forms in landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, and branding/identity systems.

from $925.00

  • The expansion begins through reengaging with genius. We will become well acquainted with the three types of genius, as coined in Ancient Rome. Genius, genius gens, and genius loci. Before genius became limited to the domain of a single human’s brilliance, genius referred to the spirit guides of each person. Genius gens referred to the ancestral spirit guides and consciousness, and genius loci are the spirits of the land. Through close listening to the genii of ourselves, our lineage, and our earth we can elevate our consciousness at this critical time and co-create a larger cosmology that brings in empathic and humble awareness of the invisible forces at work on this planet.

  • Over the course of 30 days we will work to listen, transform, and activate each of the 10 levels of consciousness. Seed, emotion, thought, energy, breath, body, aura, resource, environment, and cosmos all become both the tools and the object to be worked on. As we observe how they exist, we look for their edge conditions and work in the space between, where everything happens. As one edge moves, so the other responds, and we find that we are both the conductor and the orchestra. Our simultaneous engagement of both the fields of knowing and the faculties of sense generates the process of conscious creation and phenomenal design.

  • The tools we will use to navigate the 10 levels of consciousness are an integral pedagogy bringing together global wisdom traditions. Sources include Plato’s academy, automatic drawing as practiced by Hilma af Klint, and the lost traditions of Architectural ornament design. Contemplative tools include the practices of qi gong and geomancy from the Taoist tradition, stillness and analytic meditations from the Buddhist tradition, and mind/body movement from the Yogic tradition.

  • Decolonization and meditation are rarely within the same sentence much less intertwined into a conscious conversation. Make Conscious gently approaches the thorny and uncomfortable corners of our psyches and looks at how they can be disentangled from our quotidian lives.