Expert interview Saskia Wilson-Brown - on learning through verbalization and the chemical language

In this interview Saskia Wilson-Brown founder and director of the Institute of Art and Olfaction tells us about learning through verbalization and the chemical language.

https://artandolfaction.com/

“Comparing, observing, and contrasting with other things is super crucial.” “…a big thing that we do at the Institute is we try to teach as many of those aromatic molecules as possible because that is a precise way of communicating, you know.”

 

Expert interview Saskia Wilson-Brown - on training newcomers in the olfactory field in their sensory skills

In this interview Saskia Wilson-Brown founder and director of the Institute of Art and Olfaction tells us about how she would like newcomers in the olfactory field trained in their sensory skills.

Welcome

“[I would train them] to be more pragmatic about the materials, you know, to understand that materials are materials, and there's no inherent value to one over another, except some are more scarce obviously.”

 

Expert interview Saskia Wilson-Brown - on training the senses of smell

In this interview Saskia Wilson-Brown founder and director of the Institute of Art and Olfaction tells us about how the institute trains the sense of smell of its audience.

https://artandolfaction.com/

“…there's no RGB of scent, you know what I mean? Like you have to know all the molecules in order to… it's like learning a language. If you don't have the words, you can't speak the language, you know.”

 

Expert interview Roy Erkens - on flexibility in what shape assignments take and evaluation

In this interview Roy Erkens expert in plant evolutionary biology tells us about how his students can deliver assignments in different forms and how he evaluates the skills they’ve learned.

“…I have no limits on the assignment other than (…) the learning goals of the assignment need to be covered, or of the course need to be covered, and you tell me why you think this format works best and how this format contributes to you showing me what you have learned.”

Expert interview Roy Erkens - on using the senses in the classroom and training them to understand plants

In this interview Roy Erkens expert in plant evolutionary biology tells us about the way he engages the senses in his classes, through having everyone stand, or training the senses to understand and discern plants.

“…all my students stand in the PBL room, they don't sit on a chair but they stand on a standing table and they work together in small groups in front of the whiteboard and there is all the time listening involved to other people, because you need to present what you found, they need to communicate with each other, they need to move around in the room, so there the senses are involved relatively literally by movement, listening, drawing, etc. So, that's a very senses-based approach, I think.”

Expert interview with Piet Devos - on monaural recording and the blind perspective in the city

 

In this interview Piet Devos expert in writing and literary theory tells us about monaural recording and listening from a blind perspective in the city.

https://pietdevos.be/en/themes/detail/sonic-boundary-objects-negotiating-disability-technology-and-simulation

“… if we listen to music with headphones, usually we hear the music really in the middle of our heads. That's because it's a mono recording, but when you [listen to a] monaural [recording] then you will hear the position of all the musicians. You will hear that the piano player is in the front, that the guitarist is behind you, etc. So there is much more spacial experience there."

What is Sensory Processing? by Differing Minds

An introduction to sensory processing.

https://www.differingminds.co.uk/

Expert interview Sofia Ehrich - on smell in the museum and guided tour and the Oedeuropa project

In this interview Sofia Ehrich expert in sensory art history tells us about smell in the museum and guided tour and the Oedeuropa project.
"...we had three different techniques of how the [smell] guided tours could be done [in the museum]"

Expert interview Margherida Soldati - on oxytocin producing exercise and workshop to repair memories

In this interview Margherida Soldati expert in tactile perception and materials tells us about experiment to stimulate oxytocin production in online teaching. She also presents a workshop she did with an intergenerational group to repair memories.
"...when you remember something, how do you remember it? There is the visual, but there are also all these other layers."

Expert interview Margherida Soldati - on ice breakers, memory games, and senses as a topic to be investigated

In this interview Margherida Soldati expert in tactile perception and materials tells us about some of the sensory teaching techniques she uses.

https://margheritasoldati.com/

 

"You really need to become the kid version of yourself." 

Expert interview Barbara Strating - on the mystery box exercise

In this interview Barbara Strating expert in programme making and phenomenology tells us about the mystery box exercise "to train them that they already know a lot about an object without seeing it."

Expert interview Barbara Strating - on perceiving as not just the eyes

In this interview Barbara Strating expert in programme making and phenomenology tells us about perceiving as not just the eyes.

 

"The body as a ground for knowledge is really important." 

Expert interview Barbara Strating - on 'Delinking and Relinking' collection at the Van AbbeMuseum

In this interview Barbara Strating expert in programme making and phenomenology tells us about 'Delinking and Relinking' collection display at the Van AbbeMuseum.

 

"So we try to play around with the fact that we perceive with our full body instead of just the eyes."

Expert interview Mark Lipton - on disorientation disruption, the senses and learning

In this interview Mark Lipton expert in pedagogy and media tells us about disorientation disruption, the senses and learning, how he researches the body and/as space with his graduate students.

 

"To disorient students in any way possible is to play with their sense. That disorientation is disruptive, it challenges their expectations, it definitely brings their heart rates up..."

Expert interview Mark Lipton - on exercises for embodied reactions to emotions

In this interview Mark Lipton expert in pedagogy and media tells us about the wheel of emotions, connecting emotions and the senses and exercises for embodied reactions to emotions.

 

"We need to have knowledge of our senses and the sensory language and messages in order to manage the stress of the 21st century." 

Expert interview Mark Lipton - on lemon or lime - expectancy and taste

In this interview Mark Lipton expert in pedagogy and media tells us about expectancy and taste.

 

"You have to learn to let your body guide you."

Expert interview Ulrike Scholtes - on the researcher as sensitive research instrument

In this interview Ulrike Scholtes expert in movement and body awareness tells us about the researcher as sensitive research instrument, a black box of sorts.

 

"Using your body is not something one-directional."

Expert interview Ulrike Scholtes - on the body multiple in teaching practices

In this interview Ulrike Scholtes expert in movement and body awareness tells us about the body multiple in teaching practices and feeling techniques.

 

"The body is not natural but is practice specific, it is produced in different practices in different ways, so they can also allow them to be two different things and I as a teacher can teach one way of breathing as the good way of breathing and an hour later I can teach another way of breathing as the good way of breathing because it's a different practice, because the body is not one, it’s not natural, but it's multiple." 

Expert interview Harald Heinrichs - on aesthetization of traditional teaching activities

In this interview Harald Heinrichs expert in sociology and sustainability science tells us about aesthetising traditional teaching activities and techniques such as walking, the use of cameras, performance and video, therefore working with "multisensory interventions".

 

"Perhaps it makes sense to make them even more aware that these interventions should be explicitly multisensory. (...) I think that would be a difference, to say make it creative and non-academic or make it creative, non-academic and pay attention to multisensory dimensions."

Expert interview Harald Heinrichs - on teaching experimental seminars on senses and sustainability

In this interview Harald Heinrichs expert in sociology and sustainability science tells us about teaching experimental seminars on senses and sustainability.

 

"Over the past year it is really experimenting how we can use art based methods with different sensory foci to strengthen the sensory aesthetic strategies and competences of the students and to access sustainability and environmental questions with this different access."

Expert interview Caro Verbeek - Multisensory gaze

In this interview Caro Verbeek expert in olfactory art history tells us about multisensory gaze.

 

"Images are not [just] visual." 

Expert interview Caro Verbeek - about teaching art students to use all their senses

In this interview Caro Verbeek expert in olfactory art history tells us about t teaching art students to use all their senses.

https://odeuropa.eu/

 

"Sensing is, in the end, a cultural phenomenon." 

Expert interview Caro Verbeek - on teaching taste, smell and touch during Corona with sensory kits

In this interview Caro Verbeek expert in olfactory art history tells us about teaching taste, smell and touch during Corona with sensory kits.

 

"The lower senses, the intimate senses are the senses that are not digitizable."

Expert interview Vanessa van 't Hoogt - the collage of and the importance of teaching space

In this interview Vanessa van't Hoogt expert in how making is learned and taught tells us about a collage exercise she does with students and the importance of teaching spaces.

 

"You can come up with the most amazing sense-based teaching moment but it probably won't work if it's not the right set up and conditions that you create." 

Expert interview Vanessa van 't Hoogt - learning with the senses

In this interview Vanessa van't Hoogt expert in how making is learned and taught tells us about learning with the senses and its various aspects: dialogical interaction, social, experimental, fun and exciting, 'letting go' and celebrating process.

 

"Letting go is maybe also a word that… at least for making also I would use as terminology to describe it, because I think it really involves something that you have to push past something, to let go of your assumptions, of your perfectionism and all these kinds of things that we actually already trained kids to do or to have, to be really perfectionist or to work towards an end product, instead of celebrating the process, for example."

Expert interview Vanessa van 't Hoogt - on the course for medical students 'Under the skin'

In this interview Vanessa van't Hoogt expert in how making is learned and taught tells us about teaching the course for medical students 'Under the skin'.

 

"It's not about making something beautiful, it's about process."

Expert interview Vanessa van 't Hoogt - on teaching and history of the senses

In this interview Vanessa van't Hoogt expert in how making is learned and taught, tells us about teaching and the history of the senses.

 

"There's a lot of sensory experience also involved in the course, so we take them to the workshops in the Art Academy where they make themselves stuff, so they experience techniques, for example, they go every year to the paint workshop and they make tempura with egg and also oil paint, so they understand the difference between these two paints and what it affords and what you are able to do with it." 

Expert interview Jenny Chih-Chieh Teng - Gastronomy and Culture

 

In this interview Jenny Chih-Chieh Teng expert in Gastronomy and Culture discusses what helps her be more aware of her senses, tells us more about taste and what we can do to train our senses. More about Jenny's work here: www.mellowsheng.com

 

"The senses are a bridge, a connection in between the things you feel and the things you are doing. So for me to learn more about what I am doing or a subject, the senses help me understand it, and have an emotional and a memory connection to it."

Expert interview Natalia A. Saied
- on teaching and dance as a practice

In this interview Natalia A. Saied expert in performing arts production and movement education tells us about teaching with the senses and the role of dance as a practice.

"One of the things that interest me most in my research is how we bring dance as a practice and not dance as a performance, so the technique is an instrument, it's a tool to enlarge ways of perceiving." 

Expert interview Natalia A. Saied - on workshops and learning

In this interview Natalia A. Saied expert in performing arts production and movement education tells us her workshops and what is important to learn.

"It's who we are, it's what makes us us and gives us the space. But for that I feels that I need to expand the time and the space so that people can sense at different levels, with different ways of perceiving things. It's not inventing nothing, it's just giving impulses so that information can have place, acknowledgement and awareness." 

Expert interview Dr. Costas Papadopoulos - on his Maker Culture Course

In this interview Dr. Costas Papadopoulos expert in Digital Humanities and Cultural Studies tells us about his Maker culture course.

 

"The whole idea is learning by doing and making and also theorising by making." 

Expert interview Dr. Costas Papadopoulos - on sensory exercises

In this interview Dr. Costas Papadopoulos expert in Expert in Digital Humanities and Cultural Studies tells us about sensory exercises.

 

"It mobilises them and the body becomes part of the process I think."

Expert interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers - on his project 'Doing Experimental Media Archeology'

In this interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers expert in Media History and history of technology tells us about his project 'Doing Experimental Media Archeology'

 

"The aim of this project was really to think about different kinds of experiments that we do or can do when dealing with old media technologies." 

Expert interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers - on how the sensory translates into his teaching

In this interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers expert in Media History and history of technology tells us about how the sensory translates into his teaching and his work with students on the Maison du Son.

Expert interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers - on how he would describe this kind of learning

In this interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers expert in Media History and history of technology tells us about how he would describe this kind of learning.

 

"Linked to that is an element one could describe as hermeneutics of wonder: there is this object that most of the students haven't seen in their lives and have no clue how to deal with and to turn that wonder into curiosity and this curiosity into finally a learning experience is a key pedagogical rational behind that."

Expert interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers - on landscape as historical source and history of eating and drinking

In this interview Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers expert in Media History and history of technology tells us on landscape as historical source and history of eating and drinking.

"Eating and Drinking is what historians call a 'fait total'. You can think of the religious dimension of food, the economic dimension, the technological, conservation, the preparation of food... you have the cultural and the social dimensions. So everything can be historicised in a very complex fashion by thinking of eating and drinking. So by combining the theory with the practice, that leaves really a much stronger impression on students than just discussing it in a theoretical way."

Expert interview Dr. Ike Kamphof - on the Analog Lab
In this interview Dr. Ike Kamphof expert in phenomenology and the relationship between aesthetic sensibility and ethical affect tells us about the Analog lab.

"I gave them exercises to make notes about their experiences with what in phenomenology we call the existentials or the forms of experience and pay attention to what happens to space, what happens to time, about materiality, about the body, about relationships between you and the object but also between you and the world and the object and the world." 

Expert interview Dr. Ike Kamphof - on Practical phenomenology

In this interview Dr. Ike Kamphof expert in phenomenology and the relationship between aesthetic sensibility and ethical affect tells us about an exercise in Practical phenomenology.

Marres Training the Senses: The knowing body

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