Creative Thinking Practices: Materialities and Affects in the Wetland Landscape of Valdivia

Abstract

This text recounts the process of undisciplined exploration of the wetland landscape of Valdivia (Chile), which led the authors to traverse the city’s peri-urban areas through a series of exercises in plastic interpretation and memories activation. In this becoming, they wove perceptual, material, and affective relationships with the environment, discovering in the various “encounters” the possibility of a perspective in relation to the landscape. The authors, drawing on artistic practices and communication, reflect on the ways of constructing knowledge and on their ethical and co-creative position within this interaction.