attuning to nature
A scientific and artistic project on how humans attune to, and become coupled with, their environments.
Bringing together neuroscience, phenomenology, computer science, and storytelling around a single question: how do bodies fall into rhythm with the places they live in?
Four entrances
read in any order
- I
Science
The empirical study behind the project: methods, figures, what we are finding. Honest about being in progress.
- II
Learn
What entrainment is. What it means for a brain to lock onto a wave, a forest, a breath. Short animations and live demos for each concept.
- III
Stories, Myths, and People (and Animals) of the Land
A world map of stories shared by visitors: personal experiences and inherited folklore of places, organisms, elements, and times. The heart of the site.
- IV
Experiment
A short sequence of generated nature stimuli, with a brief phenomenological self-report after each. A research instrument disguised as an experience.
The visual direction for the site is still being chosen. Five explorations of how it could look and feel live at /design, and this page stands in until one of them is picked.