French Fragrances
Aromas, scents and smells contribute to unique embodied experiences of place, distinct to a person and their spatio-social context (Gorman,…
Playful Pipes: Sensing the City
Sound is integral to our built environment but is so often seen as a distraction or noise pollutant (Talianni, 2018)….
Wild Waters: Environmental Sensitivities
Using our sense of touch to engage directly with nature has been linked to health restoration, improved wellbeing and an…
Swishing Swathes: Doing Sensory Geographies
Understanding landscape beyond its visual realm requires an engagement in dynamic and embodied forms of sensory enquiry (Prior, 2017). This…
Sensory Geographies: The Coming of Age
A geography of the senses developed from a need to rethink how we engaged with and understood place in relation…
Descending Darkness
Darkness and light play an active role in establishing our relationship with home (Shaw, 2015). This blog will explore how…
Somerset Smellscape
Smell has the ability to facilitate the most vivid, deeply meaningful, and evocative associations with place (Gorman, 2017). This blog…
Roadside Riches
Taste is influenced by the situational, geographical, social and historical contexts it occurs in, this helps us to understand how…
Tactile Tranquility
Touch is as much an everyday instinctive practice as it is an emotional therapeutic sensation (Paterson, Dodge and MacKian, 2012)….
Capturing Cacophony
Western culture has prioritised visuality above other human senses and geography has not escaped this concept of ocularcentrism (Rose, 2003)….
