Contribution short abstract:

My intervention hopes to play with the form and dimensions of the platforms through which we imagine and experience the view of place, exploring how the platforms and tools that frame our view in the present also shape our wider vision of the world and our memories of where we have been.

Contribution long abstract:

My interest in this panel stems from a preoccupation with the shape and dimensions of platforms and we use to imagine and experience various views in our everyday lives. Whether via the traditional logocentric dimensions of a tourist destination postcard, the oblong screen views of a Tiktok or Instagram app, or the circular ocular mode of gazing through a pair of cheap binoculars or opera glasses — the tools that frame our vision shape our expectations and the eventual experiences we have of place. Using the real-time experience of various scenes of Aberdeen, I would like to explore how these forms and dimensions colour what we see, what we think we see, and what we remember after we’ve gone.