5 Prompts for Understanding a Landscape
Collaboratory
The Swimming Hole Foundation, Bearsville, NY
Summer 2025
A collaboratory involving a cross-disciplinary collective of creatives., held at The Swimming Hole Foundation. Together, we conducted a collaborative investigation into the spatial and sensory awareness of place.
Using five prompts to understand the landscape, we mapped a collective narrative of sensory associations to the meadow, the forest, and the stream—the spaces and places of the Swimming Hole. The evidence of this investigation exists through notation, artifacts, and shared conversation.
Meaningful conversation is a critical part of collaboration. Through shared conversation thinking happens in the space between speaking and seeing.
