Open AccessMaking Sense of a Changing Neighborhood: Art Students’ Experiences of Place Explored Through a Material-Discursive Analytical Lens
Author(s) -
Sara Coemans,
Joke Vandenabeele,
Karin Hannes
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
art/research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-3771
DOI - 10.18432/ari29462
Subject(s) - sense of place , sensory system , through the lens metering , human–computer interaction , aesthetics , psychology , lens (geology) , sociology , computer science , cognitive psychology , art , engineering , social science , petroleum engineering
Sensory research approaches are often used to study the relationship between people and their living environment. The type of data collected in such research projects poses analytical challenges. How do we best make sense of a body of visual, auditory, tactile data? How do such data contribute to our knowing? In this paper, we propose and illustrate an analytical apparatus for studying the complex entanglement of discursive and material aspects of sensorial experiences related to place. Place-interactive methods such as sensory go-along interviews with art students and voice-giving procedures through the making of art works formed the basis for the analysis.