Frits Ahlefeldt – Landscapes of Understanding project

Seeing reality as landscapes

Text and drawings by Frits Ahlefeldt – Fritsahlefeldt.com

Landscapes of Understanding – Philosophy, metaphors and place / body centered perspectives of reality

Landscapes of Understanding is a project about how we in our language, perspectives and understandings rely on places and situations in landscapes to better understand them. We all face gaps, hills, oceans, walls and paths in life. Making maps of these places and understandings is what the Landscapes of understanding project is about 

Diving deeper into some elements in the landscapes of understanding
Here is a few examples of pages I made about special metaphorical landscape elements so far:

Bridges – as metaphors – click image to read more

The Well – click more to read about wells as metahors

Social Media Fix – illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt

Crossing the river, is a classic metaphor when talking about going through changes

Castle of knowledge

Barking up the wrong tree

Waterfalls as change you go through as a life-changing experience, often in a small fragile barrel

Reaching a small island in the wild river is often used in connection with recovery and stress

Knowledge and culture can be at odds

Knowledge as the walls of civilization

See my collections of illustrations about landscape elements on my Download site:

My Landscapes Of Understanding Project

My work with landscapes of understanding started around 20 years ago, and I have worked a lot with the Metaphor philosophy of Lakoff and Johnson, and their books like Metaphors we live by – especially while I was at the university in Copenhagen, studying digital communication (2001-2006).

I have the .com domain: http://LandscapesOfUnderstanding.com for the project – ( the .com domain links right to this page here – FritsAhlefeldt.com/LandscapesOfUnderstanding )