Drawing up understandings and landscapes on Hiking.org

Illustrations and text by Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org

Open collections of drawings where I try to sketch up what I call landscapes of understanding, where I try to somehow connect hiking, through sketches, to different aspects of life on a small blue planet: Visual images that somehow helps us navigate in what we call “reality” , a mix of feelings, beliefs, metaphors, ideas, stories and places. Some of them outside our heads, some less so 🙂 

Group of hikers out hiking

Connecting

The cities can be much better connected to the hiking trails

If office life was a bit more like trail life

Drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt

Hikers on thrail that never ends

Treehugging, relating instead of rushing, when out hiking

Trails instead of roads would be a big change for the cities

Unexpected visit…

Modern and traditional dwelling

change by walking

Can Technology help save nature?

Father and son

Connected nature and life as a place

Sustainable hiking

Waves of change and lack of place

Digital fireplace – not the same

We are running out of planet… CreativeCommons illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt

Walking has been used throughout history as a way to explore, innovate and find new ways

The camp fire – maybe the place that everything started…

Crossing over can be both a feeling and a place, when hiking

hiking trails connecting villages in the landscapes

The comfort zone

Old Hikers

Hiking penguin drawing, CreativeCommons license By, NC-ND

Trail ranger planting fruit trees and bushes etc.

Learning kids about wild food, nutrition and the environment on the food trails

Using Virtual reality headsets when hiking

Trees as design inspiration

Connecting the cities of tomorrow to special places along trails

The reality of modern life

Civilization hangover…

Babysitting technology

Things are not always what you think…

If you want to get to know someone, go hiking…

The egg timer run

Our moods have more to do with the patterns of change and how we adapt, than the actual weather

Hiking past a river of money

Hikers have hard learned knowledge about how to deal with extreme weather. A knowledge that can be useful for many others, under climate change

Place vs money

Community vs resource mindset

The rational, production place

Community juries

human Islands at low tide

Roots

Community network

Walking together

Cocoons

Challenges to communities

The individualized community

We’re a community, even though it is not always obvious

When groups interact along the trails, magical things happen

Sometimes you need to sleep on it, sometimes not…

First step in solving conflicts and challenges is most often to understand them from a different perspective

Nature makes places, business make money

The digital fix, social media addiction is massive, but nobody notice, when everybody is in it

Sense of place

Girl sitting at a small stream

The Wood Wide Web, free drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org

Hiking and love sketches

Change Bridge – going across to become something new

Here are some more special illustration collections:

Place-illustrations Click drawing to see the collection

Love illustrations – click image to see the collection

Hiker types – click drawing to see the collection