Landing Mapping Resonances Through Embodied Intra-actions with Foreign Landscapes

Abstract

This visual essay proposes Landing as a situated design methodology that challenges extractive and human-centered approaches to site analysis in architecture and landscape architecture. Grounded in feminist, ecological, and Indigenous epistemologies, the research reframes mapping beyond representation into a practice of attunement—an embodied process of presence and listening. From the Paraná River in Argentina to the Dolomites in northern Italy, it explores cartographies that do not chart territory from afar but emerge through frictions, ruptures, and transformations between bodies and matter. Rather than predictive or technical knowledge, these mappings cultivate relational and situated ways of knowing, attentive to what resists measurement and calculation. Through drawing, sonic experiments, and material transmutations, mapping becomes a methodology that binds presence with distance, fracture with endurance, silence with resonance. Ultimately, the work positions mapping as a transdisciplinary practice that expands epistemologies beyond control, toward modes of care, vulnerability, and co-presence with dynamic territories.

Keywords: situated mapping, material agency, entanglements