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
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