Goethean science as a way to read landscape

This paper demonstrates the method of Goethean observation as a means of surveying and appraising landscape which allows a role for a schooled subjectivity. Similarities between this method and phenomenological studies are made. To explore what Goethe's scientific method is, the first section of this paper discusses the Goethean method as taught by the School of Life Science. I then move on to the situation of attempting to apply the method as a means of understanding the Genius Loci of a specific place, and record what happens when the same place is then revisited. The method, as negotiated by the group applying it, is examined by describing the experience and examining the intersubjective consistencies and discrepancies that arose within the group. In conclusion I suggest the way in which this method could be used to approach landscape in an informed way that is also sensitive to the phenomenon of the place itself