The Gallery opens at 10h30 and will close at 13h30There will be two artist’s talk/happenings in EV-6.270 on Thursday.Thursday’s featured artists are: • Emilie O’Brien, What the Body Knows: A Code for Living Well Together from 11h30 to 12h30; and• Firat Erdim, Field Harp from 12h30-13h30

Tamás Solymosi √ & Daishi Wakizono (Heritage Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan)Sensory Cartographies: Multisensory Mapping as a Tool for Understanding Urban SpacesThis paper introduces a methodological approach to interpreting urban distinctiveness through multi-sensory experiences, addressing the challenges in an era of increasing placelessness and global homogenisation. Our study investigates how distinct sensory experiences give rise to place-specific networks...

Organizer: Michele Granzotto ∆ (University of Naples "Federico II", Department of Social Science)I propose a workshop on ‘Performing Arts Oriented Social Research’. The focus will be on the capacity for self-perception in relation to the Other and the relevance of this Art-Based methodology. After a short theoretical introduction to theatre as a method of social research, we will explore some exercises taken from theatre training and creative writing to observe how a PAOSR workshop pro...

Organizers: Nina Morris ∆ (School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Kate McLean-MacKenzie ∆ (University of Kent, UK)Plenary Participant Discussion: ‘Smell of Morning’What does the early morning smell like outdoors in the city? Is Montreal different from other locations around the world? Why does this time of day smell the way it does? How does it make us feel? In this plenary session, we will use a range of methods to interrogate and discuss ‘the smell o...

Abi Smith (Geography, University of Cambridge, UK)Fluvial Infrastructures, Embodied Evidence, and The Limits of Sensory GovernanceThe majority of England’s rivers are widely evidenced as toxic and harmful to health. The most recent ‘State of our Rivers’ report by The Rivers Trust (2024) found that no river or stretch of water in England can be categorised as in ‘good’ status. Whilst reports of slushy-coloured water and green algal blooms pervade descriptions of these spac...

Alex Young and Lindsey French (Department of Art, University of Maine, USA)Olfactory Media Library: Atmospheres as Shared and Multispecies CommonsIn this presentation, we will give an overview of our project, the Olfactory Media Library (OML): a moveable expandable field research and creation station, equipped with modules containing DIY olfactory tools, technologies, and instructions for tuning our noses to our atmospheres. We will also introduce the project’s website (l...