Wanderer beyond game worlds

We discuss issues and opportunities for designing experiences with 3D simulations of nature where the landscape and the interactant engage in an equitable dialogue. We consider the way digital representations of the world and design habits tend to detach from corporeal dimensions in experiencing the natural world and perpetuate motifs in games that reflect taming, territorializing or defending ourselves from nature. We reflect on the Digital Songlines project, which translates the schema of indigenous people to construct a natural environment, and the inherent difficulty in cross-culturally representing inter-connectedness. This leads us to discuss insights into the use of natural features by western people in cultural transmission and in their experiences in natural places. We propose McCarthy and Wright's dialogical approach may reconcile conceptions of place and self in design and conclude by considering experiments in which designers digitally reconstruct their own corporeal experience in natural physical landscape.

Der Wanderer [Illustration]

Jules Adler

Müde Wanderer [Illustration]

Leopold Pilichowski

Der Wanderer [Illustration]

Alfred A. Wolmark

Ewige Wanderer [Illustration]

Lasar Segall

Der Wanderer : (Gedicht)

Hugo Zuckermann

Der Wanderer : (Gedicht)

Ludwig Marx

Der Wanderer [Illustration] : Nach einer Radierung

Lionel Samson Reiss

Alfred Bauberger als Der Wanderer, Rollenbild, Kniestück, in: Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F02776

Anton van Rooy als Wanderer, Rollenbild, in: Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F06040

Clarence Whitehill als Wanderer, Rollenbild, in: Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F07230

Franz Betz als Wanderer, Rollenbild, in: Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F08210

Tu Fu : wanderer and minstrel under moons of Cathay /

Mode of access: Internet.

A wanderer in Holland,

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