1. Spatiality and visualisation of the everyday: nature-culture in Tallinn’s urban fringe Tiina Peil Centre for Landscape and Culture Estonian Institute of Humanities tiina.peil@tlu.ee

2. cultural materialism (Denis Cosgrove) theorisation of nature (Neil Smith) non-representational theory (Nigel Thrift) materialist semiotics (Sarah Whatmore) Hybrid geographies – physical and human geography Relationship between language and spatial consciousness Geographers come armed with

3. Nature ----- Culture wild natural domesticated artificial Adding SPACE country rural town urban Adding TIME and SCALE ? Pragmatist suspicion of fixed dualisms separating humans from nature but useful as analytical categories Individual local collective global Result: a complex, formidably polysemic or semantically promiscuous ‘object of inquiry’

4. Spatiality...defined as any property relating to or occupying space...refers to – material spaces – spatial metaphors...a metonymic bridge between metaphor and personal experience Space and experience: the everyday affect & emotions

5. There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object. Williams 1991, 28 Naturalisation of culture & culturalisation of nature Materiality of representations – substance physical presence, coded forms, visual/ made visual

6. Visualisation...the formation of mental images...a survey of the world and a tradition of maps / the inherent spatiality of maps...a tension between showing the data, showing the world that the data represent, and providing abstractions and indicative interpretations (boundedness, convention)

7. Research focus... How cultures value nature? How these insights can be institutionalised, routinised, or embodied in a culture of nature? What is perceived as nature? perception grades into action How we organise the spaces in which we live?...is the process of making our domesticated worlds

8. Tallinn urban fringe

9. Ordering nature –gardens, parks –roads –signs Interpreting nature –agricultural landscapes as nature –the country and the city

10. Interactions