In this highly innovative work, the senses are liberated from the confines of the present to serve as vehicles for accessing other historical periods and imagined futures. Sense-Making builds on the burgeoning field of sensory ethnography by introducing a pair of methodologies-sensory (re)construction and sensorial extrapolationCexpressly devised to facilitate time-travel.
The first part offers a survey and critique of extant work in sensory archeology and sensory futures. The second part presents a case study of sensory (re)construction in action, focusing on Thornbury Castle (1508-1521) in the UK. The third part probes the life of the senses on the "final frontier", the "next habitat" of humanity-namely, outer space. These sensory case studies are not purely architectural or purely futuristic. They are, at the same time, exercises in "arts-based practice" or "research-creation," where the authors do not just carry out bibliographic research and write about pasts and futures, they make them.
Sense-Making is necessary reading for the international community of sensory studies scholars, as well as those with interests spanning material culture, museum and heritage studies, visual and auditory culture, experimental psychology, design and digital technology.
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This book is required - and most engaging - reading for any historian interested in the "world of the works." Worlds which in hermeneutics must be described in words, appear through sensory (re)creations by means of original methodologies, revealing in their immediacy a plurality of meanings that must be considered to truly understand the past. Sense-Making is also crucial to open up significant and hopeful alternative futures in our compromised world. This book makes uncommon sense.
- Alberto Perez-Gomez, O.C., Saidye R. Bronfman Professor Emeritus in Architecture, McGill University, Montreal
This is an exceptionally rich book combining both broad critical overviews of the sensory studies literature and targeted case studies - or etudes sensorielles. It offers the reader methodological reflections on how to address the role of the senses in the past and future through detailed writing and imaginative artistic interventions probing the sensorial and material worlds and lives beyond the present. This book wonderfully accomplishes the difficult task of enabling the reader to imagine past or future sensations through engaging art-based practices. In this way, Sense-Making is a landmark contribution to the emerging literature within sensory studies centring on sensing and making sense in the absence of co-presence.
- Mikkel Bille, Professor in Ethnology, University of Copenhagen
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate
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Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
13 s/w Abbildungen, 13 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-1-032-90837-3 (9781032908373)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sheryl Boyle is Director of the Carleton Sensory Architecture & Liminal Technology (CSALT) lab in Ottawa, Canada, where she supervises immersive materials research and innovative design and assembly processes.
Genevieve Collins is completing a PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media from the University of Manchester, UK. She has worked in the arts and cultural industry of Winnipeg, Canada, and is the co-creative director of a film production company.
David Howes is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Canada. In 2024, he was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada.
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Concordia University, Canada.
Introduction Part One: Making Sense of Making and the Environment 1.1: Sensing the Past: Archaeologies of Perception 1.2: Sensing Ahead: Anthropologies of the Future Part Two: Sensory (Re)Construction as a Way of Knowing, the Case of Thornbury Castle 1508-21 2.0: Prelude 2.1: The Research Setting: A Narrative of a Building in the Making 2.2: Epistemic Objects: Trading Zones made Sensible in 16th Century England 2.3: Traces and Research Creation: Fragrant Walls and the Table of Delight: On the (re)making of Walls, Window, Chimney and Table Part Three: Probing the Cosmic Sensorium 3.1: Framing the Future: Staging ETHER 3.2: Speculative Space Habitats: Applying the Methodology of Sensory Extrapolation
