Sensory studies arises at the conjuncture (and within) the fields of anthropology • sociology • history • archeology • geography • communications • religion • philosophy • literature • art history • museology • film • mixed media • performance • phenomenology • disability • aesthetics • architecture • urbanism • design

Sensory Studies can also be divided along sensory lines into, for example, visual culture, auditory culture (or sound studies), smell culture, taste culture and the culture of touch, not to mention the sixth sense (however it might be defined)

Of Related Interest

This space will contain a vast miscellany of lists and links which take you to sites of related interest. For example, there will be an index of theses in sensory studies; there will be a list of research teams, centres, labs and institutes; there will be links to breaking stories about the senses; and much more.

NEW ADDITIONS

Sensory Acts, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

CRUSH: Cambridge Russian Sensory History Network, Cambridge University, UK

Embodied Expertise in Art Science and Medicine, Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies, Netherlands

Sensorium: Museum of the Senses, Bern, Switzerland

Morden Sensory Library, Merton, UK

SenseScapes: Laboratory for the Senses, Online

Cultural Acoustics, Miriam Kolar, Online

Sensing the Past: Sensory Archaeology, Architecture, and the Virtual Past Sub-Group, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sensorial Meditation, SensesScapes, Online

Internet of Senses Institute, Online and Austin, Texas, USA

Auditory History: International Musicological Society (IMS) Study Group (Fall 2023 Schedule)

Access-in-the-Making (AIM) Lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Music, Sound, and Society Research Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

The Design Museum; Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR, London, UK

Multisensory Studio, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands

EXPerience RESearch SOciety (EXPRESSO), International

Sensorium, A Quest to Understand Extraordinary Experiences of Sense, Maureen Seaberg

M-A-D, Erik Adigard and Patricia McShane, Berkeley, California and Montpellier, France

Tangible Territory, Interdisciplinary Sensory Investigations

Sound Studies Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Odeuropa, Interdisciplinary International Research Team

Sensorium, Interdisciplinary Nordic Network

Sound and Space Research, International Art Research Platform

Artsoundscapes, Universitat de Barcelona

Sensing the Truth: Changing Conceptions of the Perceptual in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe, Interdisciplinary Research Group

 

RESEARCH TEAMS, CENTRES, LABS AND INSTITUTES

Law and the Senses, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

International Ambiances Network, International Pluridisciplinary Research Network

Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, Transnational, Independent Research and Creation Network

Collaborative & Experimental Ethnography Lab, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, Canada

Kitchen Theory, Design Studio, London, UK

Sensory Studies in Antiquity, Interdisciplinary Open Network

Life of Breath, Durham University & University of Bristol, Durham & Bristol, UK

Scent Culture Institute, Bern & Zurich, Switzerland

Sensory Cities Think-Kit, Brunel University, London, UK

WalkingLab, Collaborative Network

SpokenWeb, Research Network based at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Sonic Futures, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, UK

International Association of Empirical Aesthetics

The Soma Project, University of Bristol, UK

Sensory Orchestration, Multimodal Literacy Learning in Primary Education

CSALT: Carleton Sensory Architecture and Liminal Technologies Laboratory, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Training the Senses, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Understanding the Senses Project, University of Glasgow, UK

Art and the Senses, Graduate Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

GERESSENS, Groupe d’études et de réflexion sur le sensoriel

Thought and Sense Project, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Rethinking the Senses Project

Eye’s Mind Project, Exeter, UK

Empirical Visual Aesthetics Lab, Vienna, AT

Sensory Cities Network, Museum of London, CCCB Barcelona, City Museum Cologne

Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines, University of Manchester, UK

Citizen Sense, Goldsmiths University, London, UK

Rethinking the Senses, AHRC Science in Culture, UK

ISA Thematic Group on Senses and Society, International Sociological Association

Sense of Smell, Communication and Multimedia Design (CMD), Breda, AVANS University

MILSON: Pour une anthropologie des milieux sonores, Paris, France

International Visual Literacy Association, International

Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles

Cambridge Russian Sensory History, Cambridge University

Nottingham Sensory Studies Network, University of Nottingham

Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow

Bodies in Movement: The Blog, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Light Research, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

Touch and Well-Being Research, University College London

Sound Studies Lab, University of Copenhagen

Display Cult, Toronto, Canada

Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotion and Sensory Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sensate, e-journal, Harvard University

Sensory Stories Project, Humanities Research Centre, University of York

Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford

Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

CenSes : Centre for the Study of the Senses, University of London, London, UK

The Sense Lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Cultures Sensibles, Groupe de contact FNRS/Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

SENSOTRA, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Kuopio, Finland

Megaprojects New Media, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

The Network for Sensory Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

CRESSON, Centre de Recherche Sur L’Espace Sonore et L’Environnement Urbain

Renaissance Skin, King’s College London, London, UK

Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Yale University

The Nomos of Images: Manifestation and Iconology of Law, Minerva Research Group, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut (2014-2019)

 

SENSORY ART AND DESIGN

Odorama, Olfactory Art, Research, and Design

Garden of Becomings, Inkeri Aula, Mark Niskanen, and Jane-Matti Salo; virtual

Emilie Baltz, Technologist, Artist & Experience designer

Angelika Bock, Research-Creation

Marije Vogelzang, Eating Designer

Amada Couch, Artist

Giulia Soldati, Food Design

Jinhyun Jeon, Sensory Designer

Jo Burzynska, Multisensory Artist

Fiona Candy, artist

Janaina Baxevani, Sensory Graphic Design

Loris Gréaud, artist

Ricardo Huisman, sound image artist

Isabelle Choiniere, artist

Maki Ueda, Olfactory Artist

Sensory Sites, artists

O+A (Bruce Odland and Same Auinger), artists

Janine Antoni, artist

Diller + Scofidio, interdisciplinary design studio

WildWorks, art led theatre company

dreamthinkspeak, site-responsive works

Sensory Maps (Kate McLean)

Gwenn-Aël Lynn, Chicago, IL

Multisensory Design, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

Mediamatic, Art and New Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Dutch Institute of Food and Design, The Netherlands

Aftelier Perfumes (Mandy Aftel)

Orph.us (Doug Fitch and Mimi Oka)

Rosalyn Driscoll, sculpture and touch

Davide Tidoni, sound space research

Wearable Absence

Sensorium, Annual Conference, Slovakia

 

RESOURCES

Sensory Maps

Journal of Sonic Studies

Eco: on blindness and the arts

Bibliography: Synesthesia in Art and Science

Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog

Synesthesia Resource Center

The Sixth Sense Abcderium

Art Beyond Sight

Neuroanthropology

Percepnet

Philpapers – Perception