Biophilia - the interconnectedness of humans and nature

Below are some photos I took whilst trying to figure out the observational documentary I have been tasked to make from last week's documentary workshop.

I live in Edinburgh and all around me are green spaces that exist alongside a very busy city. It's been my favourite pastime since moving to Scotland in 2018, to walk around and try to discover all the hidden nooks and crannies. I often take pictures as I go, and this Saturday wasn't any different. I was out for a walk in the glorious cold Edinburgh sunshine, observing the world around me and soaking in as much as I could. I had spent the morning planning my documentary and what I wanted to observe. As this needs to link to my broader progress and creative development for my final film, I decided to focus on the relationship between humans and nature. This interconnectedness can be understood through the term "biophilia" which Edward O. Wilson introduced in his book Biophilia (1984). As I understand it, the biophilia hypothesis is the human urge to connect with nature and the world around us. In my documentary, I want to explore this relationship with the natural world. How humans construct and build in it, how nature will continue to thrive when human architecture and infrastructure fail, how people interact with the world around them, and how they commune with nature by walking through it and experiencing it. I want to engage with haptic visuality as a part of this, to get up close and inspect textures of trees, rocks, bark, mortar, ruined stone, concrete etc. I think this would make for an interesting observational documentary, that sort of washes over you as you consider time and place in relation to what you're seeing.