Sense-Making

Rezensionen / Stimmen

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