Learning About Vistas

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a Vista as: i) “a distant view through or along an avenue or opening : prospect,” and as ii) “an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events).“

Vistas in this knowledge-land-scape performs both functions, and may as such assist in your decision making as you make your way through the knowledge-land-scape.

Vistas afford a view into the frameworks and theories that I was guided by during my fieldwork and broader research. In this way they also perform openings that allow for the prospective insights and principles needed to make meaningful decisions within the knowledge-land-scape, when they are called upon. After all, the trails and tracks, as well as the knowledge-land-scape itself have been shaped by my own considerations and response-abilities. At the same time, they are also shaped by the permeating agencies of many other more-than-human beings and phenomena - most of which I can not claim to have an understanding of and can merely speak to in terms of how I have encountered them myself.

Vistas, therefore, don’t provide all-knowing insights. They are partial perspectives, that provide prospective guidance to however you choose to wayfare this knowledge-land-scape. Sometimes, it is pausing and paying attention, by itself, that can already provide meaningful insights.

You stop for a second and take in the vista in front of you. In this case your eye catches a specific outline in the land-scape: a Landmark. Click the “Landmark’ button to examine it closer.

Landmark: Learning about Landmarks