Episode 36: Landscapes of Being - Wayfinding

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of wayfinding and what has been lost in our modern approach to navigating spaces.

Send us Fan Mail Wayfinding once meant discovering one's path through never-before-encountered territory, step by experiential step — the opposite of its modern meaning, which is following signs through spaces already fully mapped. This inversion becomes the episode's animating question: what have we lost when we stopped reading the intelligence of living territories and started looking for the right playbook? The conversation moves through Wade Davis's writings on dead reckoning, the Polynes...

Topics covered

• wayfinding
• landscapes of being
• intelligence of living territories

Keywords

• Wade Davis
• dead reckoning
• Polynesian navigation

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