TY - JOUR
T1 - Synaesthetic landscapes
T2 - looking for the missing senses in an eighteenth-century palace in Mafra, Portugal
AU - Casimiro, Tânia Manuel
AU - Santos, Joel Rodrigues Oliveira Dos
AU - Castro, Inês
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04004%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/DL 57%2F2016/DL 57%2F2016%2FCP1453%2FCT0084/PT#
UIDB/04004/2020
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0084
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - In 1781, a book discussing the relationship between cats and dogs was published in Lisbon. Among the illustrations, there is a representation of a palace, more precisely the Marquess of Ponte de Lima palace in Mafra, Portugal. This illustration reveals how this space was lived and felt not only by the observer but also by all the human and non-human agents that circulated and existed in this space. The palace still exists, it is a public building, and 241 years later, we, as archaeologists, visited the palace. We observed its architecture, touched its walls, and heard how sound would propagate, trying to use our senses to feel the space. After the visit, we sat down and discussed how we perceived the place. We then returned to the late eighteenth-century representation and debated how visual stimulation can provoke a sensorial experience of a place we never smelled or listened to. This paper aims to debate whether we can use past representations of still-existing spaces to understand how different agents effectively reacted to different environments and how those representations influenced the way we engage with such spaces.
AB - In 1781, a book discussing the relationship between cats and dogs was published in Lisbon. Among the illustrations, there is a representation of a palace, more precisely the Marquess of Ponte de Lima palace in Mafra, Portugal. This illustration reveals how this space was lived and felt not only by the observer but also by all the human and non-human agents that circulated and existed in this space. The palace still exists, it is a public building, and 241 years later, we, as archaeologists, visited the palace. We observed its architecture, touched its walls, and heard how sound would propagate, trying to use our senses to feel the space. After the visit, we sat down and discussed how we perceived the place. We then returned to the late eighteenth-century representation and debated how visual stimulation can provoke a sensorial experience of a place we never smelled or listened to. This paper aims to debate whether we can use past representations of still-existing spaces to understand how different agents effectively reacted to different environments and how those representations influenced the way we engage with such spaces.
KW - Phenomenology
KW - Sensorial experiences
KW - Synaesthesia
KW - Palace
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2024.2338056
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2024.2338056
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-696X
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Time and Mind
JF - Time and Mind
ER -