The Entangled Tales that Landscapes Tell: An Embodied HCI Pedagogy for Re-enchanted Nature Walks
Pedro Galvão-Ferreira, Marta Galvão Ferreira, Teresa Maritza Gouveia da Silva, Nuno Nunes, Valentina Nisi · 2025
Despite their long-standing presence in the digital mainstream, the use of locative technologies in enhancing interaction with natural and cultural heritage invites further work, particularly relevant in addressing the human-nature disconnect characterizing the Anthropocene. In this paper, we investigate how nature walks are experienced, and how these embodied encounters with nature might inform the development of digital technologies that enhance nature walks. In examining the lived and sensory dimensions of the experience of walking nature walks, we investigate their embodied and imaginary realities and devise an organic pedagogy for developing interactive locative technologies for natural heritage that entangle human and more-than-human actors. By formulating implications for the design of organically-informed interactive tools, we contribute to a reparative HCI didactics intended to sustainably mend, and re-enchant, the compromised human-nature bond, adding depth to the understanding and appreciation of nature as a space of awe and wonder.