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Walking with(out) senses
Students learn how and which sensory information is used in controlling human walking.
Led by Chris McCrum & Hans Savelberg
Observing as a professional
Students learn to observe in their field of knowledge through different observations questions from other fields of knowledge.
Led by Ilse van Lieshout
Using paint
Students learn to reflect with a certain learning topic and outcome. They gain personal insight and abilities for creativity, awareness and well-being.
By Ilse van Lieshout
Mapping one’s own perceivings
Students get acquainted with sensory knowledge and their sensory awareness in the surrounding they are in.
Led by Ilse van Lieshout
Clay sculpting
Students learn to get acquainted with their sensory perceivings through touching clay.
Led by Ilse van Lieshout
Making ‘sense’ of cultural ecosystems: Researching the cultural fields using sensory research methods
This course familiarises students with different sensory research methods and trains them to analyse cultural ecosystem.
Led by Emilie Sitzia & Carissa DiCindio
Sound of Sustainability
The basic approach again was to connect the scientific analysis with strategies of arts-based approaches, in this case of sound art.
Led by Harald Heinrichs
Bureau of Expertise for Critical Thinking and Artistic Intervention
This course aimed at exploring the potential of scientific– artistic analysis and intervention in issues of (un)sustainable development.
Led by Harald Heinrichs
Sustainability, Politics and Everyday Life
A course aimed at employing the approach of visual ethnography for exploring the materialization of politically contested issues of (un)sustainability in everyday life and practice.
Led by Harald Heinrichs
Echo Location and Multisensory Interventions
Introduction to Echolocation (or Click Sonar), and a more broad consideration of how we collectively experience both each other and the spatial environment through our auditory and tactile senses.
Led by Britt Hatzius and Thomas Tajo
Museum of Memory
Senses, museums and learning; build connections between various bodies of knowledge; engaging museum visitors through the senses
Led by Emilie Sitzia
Making Cultures
Design thinking through project creation and execution; reimagining public spaces
Led by Costas Papadopoulos
Who Nose?
Training the sense of smell – How can smell help address different challenges? How might the use smell to inform investigation, and maybe even make it part of the intervention?
Led by Anna Harris
Let’s talk some sense into you…
Introduction to senses-based learning and how it can be used in professional practice
Led by Emilie Sitzia
Sharpening Your Senses
Training the senses for research, professional practice, and personal development
Led by Emilie Sitzia
Practical Phenomenology
Practice phenomenological approach to user experience and develop phenomenological ‘attitude’
Led by Ike Kamphof
Diary Notations
Template researching Lived Experience, by Phenomenological (self) observation
Led by Ike Kampfhof
Teaching Sensory Anthropology
Have an understanding of how sensory awareness is put into practice by researchers in order to solve challenges of presentation and representation.
Led by Paula Serafini
Sounding Bodies
To compare musical instruments and the body as an instrument;
What if the body does not function well enough to train the instrument, the instrument needs specific care, or different ways of playing it can affect the sounds of the instrument? What if we take the body itself as an instrument, tune it, and join it with other bodies?
Led by Genevieve Murphy and Aart Strootman
Skins
Skin as a physical element. What is the role of the skin for the body? What are the smallest movements underlying it?
Led by Katja Heitmann
Performing Work
To discover and analyze the different versions of ourselves – a version of us when we work as opposed to a version that might not be as prevalent.
Led by Philippine Hoegen, Nirav Christophe and Carolien Stikker
Operation Mango
You will gain insight into a series of surgical practices by using fruits to simulate surgeries as well as learn how these procedures are carried out from start to finish using surgical tools such as scalpels.
Led by Anna Harris, Kaisu Koski and Bart Schrier
Listening as Intervention
In this workshop Davide Tidoni, together with dancer Simone Evangelisti, will invite participants to explore and investigate their own capacity to touch, filter, absorb, and block sound when realizing the performative potential of the scores. Through guided sequences and improvisational moments, participants will experiment in new ways to approach sound and listening as resources for developing movement and body awareness.
Led by Davide Tidoni and Simone Evangelisti
Catching Your Eye
Puppeteers and magicians are masters in directing your attention. They make you focus on one part of their performance and lose sight of the rest. This shows their skillful mastery of techniques, but also tells us something about our own way of perceiving. In this session, we explore both angles.
Led by Rachel Warr and Will Houstoun.
Analysing Media – Introduction to phenomenology as a research method
Learn to pay careful attention to your prereflective experience. In relation to specific structures in media
For analysing and discussing what this means for our mediated relation to the world, you need theoretical concepts.
Led by Ike Kamphof
Sounding Media: Designers and Users
The course deepens the understanding of the field of sound studies already acquired in the module Sound Technologies and Cultural Practices. Where the Sound Technologies module focused on musical practices, the focus of this course will be sounds of a non-musical nature.
Led by: Dr. Alexandra Supper
Observing and representing: The history of the senses
Becoming aware of the complexity, multi-dimensionality and diversity of sensory experiences.
Led by: Dr. Alexandra Supper (DSS, coordinator)
Dr. Anna Harris (DSS), Dr. Annelies Jacobs (DSS), Dr. Jack Post (LK),
Dr. Jo Wachelder (History)
Creating Digital Collections II
Students use different design thinking methods to work together and make decisions, as well as to wireframe and prototype the digital collection.
Led by: Dr Costas Papadopolous & Dr Susan Schreibman
Sensory Studies of Science
In this course, we will explore the role of the senses and embodied practices in a variety of scientific disciplines and different sites of knowledge-production, and encounter the method of sensory ethnography as a tool to study the senses in the sciences.
Led by: Dr. Alexandra Supper
Exploring Senses Cards
In this student Premium project ‘Exploring senses’ students created cards and a training manual for sensory education. Premium Project are interfaculty students collaborations.
Creating Digital Collections I
The course ‘Creating Digital Collections’ will introduce you to a new skill: 3D digitisation and modelling to present and disseminate material culture.
Led by: Dr Costas Papadopolous & Dr Susan Schreibman
Sensing the Past – A workshop in applied sensory archaeology and heritage assessment
Knowledge sharing in sensory approach to the built environment.
Led by: Pamela Jordan and Sara Mura
Digital Sensory workshop
Training the senses to use in analysis of museum spaces and assess impact of sensory stimuli on museum audiences.
Led by: Emilie Sitzia.
Collective observation exercise
Objective statement / Intended effect of the tool: Observing, not interpreting or explaining.
By Ike Kamphof
The senses in the museum and theater: presentation theory and strategies
Students will be asked to read and criticize 2000 years of thought on cognition and proprioception of the multisensory aspects of art and performance. Visits to the Yale museums – Yale University Art Gallery, Center for British Art, Peabody, and Musical Instruments – as well as special exhibitions at Yale and elsewhere will focus on how objects and their presentation appeal to the senses.
Led by: Frederick John Lamp
Later Imperial China: A Sensory History
The course is devoted to helping students understand how to creatively and rigorously interpret its primary documents (including texts, artifacts, and, where possible, sensations) alongside the best of recent historical writing about Chinese history.
Led by: Carla Nappi
Knowing by Sensing
Learning objectives: Students are familiar with the most important concepts and elements in the history of the senses in modern and early modern Europe (1500-now).
Students will learn to enlarge their sensory vocabulary and reflect on the sensory perception by means of a sense-log.
Bodies, Spaces, Performances
Learning objectives: Graduate learning outcomes in this course focus on learner skills in four general areas (1. Knowledge and Thinking, 2. Conceptual and Creative Activity, 3. Communication & Literacy, 4. Capacity for Autonomy & Leadership
Led by: Mark Lipton
Anthropology of Sound
Learning objectives: This course is designed to sensitize students to the often-forgotten presence of sounds in everyday life. More than just a phenomenological account of sound, the course proposes to consider all sound-related dimensions (noise, music, voice, silence, etc.) as significant elements of research and analysis.
Led by: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Altman Seminar: Sensory Knowledge
Learning objectives: Cell phones, iPads, smart phones, computers, and use of the Internet impede active participation in class discussion and their use is prohibited in class unless otherwise directed by your professors.
Led by:
Charles Victor Ganelin & Elisabeth Hodges
African American History and the Five Senses
This is a month long unit that ties African-American history month with the five senses. For each week of African-American History month, the class studies one of the five senses with one area of African-American History.
Led by: Kate Johnson
The Body as a Score
Learning objectives: How to make and read different kinds of scores using your body and voice.
Led by: Yun Ingrid Lee & Karina Dukalska
Teaching Sensory Anthropology
Introduction to sensory anthropology – Have an understanding of how sensory awareness is put into practice by researchers in order to solve challenges of presentation and representation.
Led by: Paula Serafini
Talking Smell
Learning objectives: Identifying and expressing smells, reading about scent & analyzing the relationship between smells and words.
Led by: Saskia Wilson-Brown, Emma Crebolder & Laura Speed
Staging an Ordinary Day
Learning objectives: Explore and note one’s own detailed observations of theatrical events in everyday life.
Led by: Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
Social Distancing
Learning objectives: Explore our codes of physical behavior: how near can we come to another body? Where are we allowed to touch? And how do we read the body language of others?
Led by: Suze Milius & Maribel Ortega
Smell Dating
Learning objectives: Explore the attraction of smells and the relationship between our brain, nose and hormonal system.
Led by: Klara Ravat & Anna D’Errico
Modes of Imagination
Learning objectives (course specific): Use the phenomenology and neurophysiology of aesthetic experience, to see how the senses, emotion, and imagination together animate the mind.
Led by: Roel Heremans & Louis Schreel.
