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Wonderful, but scary…
Most people see mountains as wonderful scenery far away. As they the whitened peaks of the mountains and the massive mountain structures fielding kilometers and kilometers behind the horizon, this is what I loved watching while my family and I were driving to the Italian mountain complex – Trentino. Other views that most people see…
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Ambarino Mountains (Red Dead Journey, PART I)
Hi. Since I wanna make my research topic about a video game, I decided to stick to it since the beginning. So, I won’t talk about my relationship to the, let’s say “real mountains”, but to those from the video game I chose. The Red Dead series is something that’s much more than a game…
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Mountains as a place where everyone can find something for themselves
In fact, it never occurred to me to think more deeply about the meaning of the mountains and the perception of the mountains in general, beyond the fact that they are just some hills. For me personally, the mountains are a famous natural phenomenon, which perhaps must leave a certain form of surprise, mystery, and…
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What Are Mountains to Me
I always knew why I deeply love the sea : this unstable and impulsive waters, cradle of life and savage storms. I always knew why I love the night sky, gazing into infinity and falling in the unstoppable great waltz of the universe. But what are mountains to me? The easy answer would be freedom or…
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Memories Set in Stone
Mountains are memories eternal. None will ever come over their remnants to ponder who were the people that once inhabited them, for there never will be any remains.Mountains shall remain. And still, were that to happen, travelers would think of no people at all, for mountains are not the memories of any kind but of…
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Setting off
We’re excited to share that our seminar Mountains Revisited is launching next week! During spring / early summer of 2022, this blog will follow all the topics we will discuss throughout the spring semester and include voices of both the author of this blog as well as the collaborating students. From the very beginning we…
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Welcome
Welcome to our blog! This section follows both the research project and the experimental seminar. Expect short written pieces and multimedia ranging from literature reviews, conceptual findings, affective field notes and other news.