In this symposium, diverse approaches to place-responsive pedagogy are developed. The overall hypothesis is that ‘landscapes’ (1), ‘soundscapes’ (2) and ‘hyperreality’ (3) are concepts of esthetic education. (1) Landscape traces back to the Dutch word ‘landschap’, describing paintings in which the land itself is made the subject of paintings (National Geographic Society, online). Otto Schluter was the first to define geography as landscape science (see Dickinson 1969). There are natural and cultural landscapes. The first of which consists of landforms such as plains, mountains, lakes and natural vegetation. Cultural landscapes are structures of social, civilizational and economic significance that are made up by people. (2) A soundscape (Southworth 1969, Schafer 1977) is an acoustic environment, in which the perceiver is involved. (3) According to Jean Baudrillard ([1981] 1994), hyperreality is a technological context, in which imaginaries make us believe that they are real.

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