Mood boards

Mood boards are collections of images, materials, and references assembled to communicate atmosphere and intention in design. They are not only about textures, materials and colour palettes, but about framing a project’s political and cultural narrative. A mood board decides which moods, values, and communities a design aligns with, and what is acceptable, appropriate or desired in a given space. In the design process, mood boards can serve the decision about the material aspects of a project, but may just as well act as an are early apparatuses for community building. They can shape not just aesthetics but the cohesion of a project’s story, turning scattered ideas into a compact, communicable vision.

Landscape architects usually think of compact greenery as the sound buffer minimizing noise pollution but we rarely think about specifically designing with sound, acoustics of space and the soundscape present at the site of intervention. Especially in the art scene, the sonification of plants, microbes, underwater creatures and their otherwise unheard processes, gained special attention […]

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