What is a ‘landscape’? It is not an absolute but something vastly artificial. It is not simply a presence but comes into existence through our gaze. By our specific ways of looking at the environment, we create a landscape image. The individual elements in our environment already exist out there, but they do not blend into a unified whole and become a landscape without us
looking at them from a certain, culturally defined perspective. Usually, we only see those landscapes that we have learned to recognize as such. But how can we arrive at new ways of seeing landscapes? How can we develop new landscape images?

Atelier Latent engages in the new discipline of the Strollology in order to develop new ways of recognizing and analyzing undiscovered – latent – landscapes.

Gardens carry meanings. In that regard, they are different from merely decorative clusters of plants. But meaning is a volatile phenomenon. What remains when a garden loses its purpose, or if its purpose falls into oblivion? Then, even the most magnificent flowers are of no use to the garden.
By learning how to pay attention and how to read latent locations, meanings will emerge on the surface of our perceptions.

Atelier Latent is dedicated to this art.