The topic featured in this issue of Landscape is test sites. It emerged from our work in the High Desert of California where time seems to lose meaning. Geologists refer to it as the stratified landscape of deep time, exposing human experience amd interaction as comparatively short lived and fast paced.

We use this difference of timescale to establish a desert test site that allows us to temporarily step out of the synchronized movements of our daily social routines and explore how the stories we interact with and participate in as individuals and as a culture take shape and develop meaning in our environments.

Language: English