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Reclaiming the Obsolete in Transitional Landscapes: Perception, Motion, Engagement

Transitional landscapes are spaces/interfaces between city and countryside commonly experienced on the move; although highly present in the commuting life of metropolitan areas, they are perceived as obsolete by the people who mostly use them – the everyday passengers. However, these landscapes suggest a new type, a product of mobility as a condition of modernity. Here, the notion of the terrain vague is employed to delineate the transitional landscape as a territory with hidden poetics and as a new type of public space. Fundamental to this is a redefinition of engagement that takes the moving user into account. This engagement is demonstrated in a series of digitally conducted design experiments for two hypothetical projects in real locations (Athens, Greece; London, Britain) which explored the momentary perception of motion as part of a wider design method. The study concludes that transitional landscapes can be rendered desirable both aesthetically and financially through the mediation of motion perception.