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Conference paper2015Peer reviewed

Colour installations turn spase into place

Thorpert, P.

Abstract

Outdoor environments are complex and contain a broad palette of environmental information which influences our experiences. In order to make our surroundings logical we need to arrange the components into separate parts, identify them and relate them back to the overall environment (Bell, 2004). Nevertheless the feeling of a place is something that is created by all our senses, by its scent or touch, through events or in the subconscious (Tuan, 1996). Colour occupies a central role in the visual landscape experience, and possesses a powerful capacity for putting us into different moods by influencing our feelings and instincts (Küller, Mikellides & Janssens, 2009). An important aspect to take into account in the landscape practice is that our experiences of colours depend on factors such as age, gender, previous experience and cultural background. Colour objects and art installations have the possibility to interact with and influence the humans by a complex interplay. The purpose of this paper is to present parts of an ongoing pilot project consisting of shorter colour workshops with landscape architect and garden design students in a woodland area in the south of Sweden. The paper reflects and discusses how environmental psychology theory might explain in which way site specific, colourful installations influence our landscape experience and if they could be related to cultural services and environmental psychology as well as how these new insights might affect the landscape design practice.

Published in

Title: History of the future : 52nd World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects : Congress proceedings 10–12 June 2015 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Publisher: Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Polytechnic University Publishing

Conference

52nd World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects: History of the Future, IFLA 2015, 10–12 June 2015 Saint-Petersburg, Russia

SLU Authors

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture

Publication identifier

  • ISBN: 9785742248774

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/132030