The post-disaster landscape doesn’t refer just to the residue of what has been, nor does it imply the revived layer that’s been reconstructed and superimposed over the remaining, visible ruins. It embodies a liminal melding that echoes both powerful emotional associations and embodied experiences of the land, where presence and absence commingle continuously in the fluidity of life.
Tracing the affective, ephemeral, and non-linear ways these landscapes are lived, the DeepLandS project offers a mode of inquiry attuned to what is felt yet often unseen and elusive to conventional ways of knowing. It examines the sensory and emotional aftermath of disaster and how these insights might enhance understanding of the diverse experiences that people face in its wake. It also seeks to test the combined potential of art-based and sensory methods for transforming perceptions of post-disaster landscapes and creating new modes of learning about and through situated experience in a changing climate. By focusing on the singular and subjective, the project looks beyond dominant narratives to cultivate a more inclusive, empathetic understanding of the often-occluded perspectives.
With a sensorial approach to the everyday, DeepLandS strives to foster a transformative and regenerative approach to post-disaster living, as well as more inclusive recovery efforts attentive to the entanglements of human and nonhuman life. Its methodology weaves together sensory ethnography, creative geography, and spatial humanities to craft a nuanced understanding of a post-disaster landscape through a comparative exploration of two post-wildfire cases in Portugal and Slovenia.
Project team:
MSCA Fellow:
Dr. Nevena Tatović
Supervisor:
Professor Dr. Rajko Muršič
URL: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101205129
Institution: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia – Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts
Research locations: Portugal, Slovenia
