המסע הפנומנולוגי בנחל המערות

The project proposes turning the Nahal Mearot site into a “walking museum.” Not a static white box, but a path where knowledge is absorbed through the body: walking, breathing, light, sound, and the touch of stone. Its starting point is phenomenological: to awaken full presence and attentiveness, to break ingrained habits of automatic perception, and to return the experience to a direct encounter with place and time. Among the guiding phenomenological tools is a shifting template, a recurring grammar of inside – outside – inside – outside that appears again and again, yet takes a different form each time. In this way a consistent language emerges that manages to “use the template to break the template”: the repetition provides orientation, while the subtle change sharpens awareness. The intervention is minimal and precise – the minimum necessary for maximum experience – so that nature, the caves, and time can act. The content of the path is woven from three interlacing threads: the geology and biology of Mount Carmel; the archaeology and emergence of humankind; and the living landscape as continuous testimony. The path teaches through the experience itself – compression and release, framing, light, and traces of time – seeking to create a profound connection between person, landscape, and history; not mere information, but a bodily and mental memory.