Sense-Making - New Sensory Methods for Exploring Past Imagining Possible Futures

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 methodologie expressly devised to facilitate time-travel.

List of contents

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

About the author

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 holds 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 a 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sheryl Boyle, Sheryl Collins Boyle, Genevieve Collins, Howes David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032908373
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290837-3
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Sensory Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Archaeological Theory, The arts: general topics