
SENSOTRA
Closed. - 31.12.2021
Research group
Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships in Europe, 1950-2020
SENSOTRA is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant funded five-year-long-project.
The project aims at producing new understandings of the changes in people’s sensory environmental relationships in three European cities during a particular period in history, 1950–2020.
Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships in Europe, 1950-2020
SENSOTRA is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant funded five-year-long-project.
The project aims at producing new understandings of the changes in people’s sensory environmental relationships in three European cities during a particular period in history, 1950–2020.
It will offer a focused window on cultural transformations of the sensory by introducing a new transgenerational methodology, ethnographic “sensobiography”. Why now? Firstly, innovative and thoroughly researched information about sensory environmental relationships is in great demand. If the findings are successful, their challenge to several conventional dichotomies will provide results whose interdisciplinary impact extends beyond cultural, sound, and music studies to areas of psychology, human geography, environmental aesthetics, and media history and theory.
SENSOTRA is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant funded five-year-long-project.
The project aims at producing new understandings of the changes in people’s sensory environmental relationships in three European cities during a particular period in history, 1950–2020.
It will offer a focused window on cultural transformations of the sensory by introducing a new transgenerational methodology, ethnographic “sensobiography”. Why now? Firstly, innovative and thoroughly researched information about sensory environmental relationships is in great demand. If the findings are successful, their challenge to several conventional dichotomies will provide results whose interdisciplinary impact extends beyond cultural, sound, and music studies to areas of psychology, human geography, environmental aesthetics, and media history and theory.
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Keywords
cultural heritage
cultural identities and memories
cultural studies
environmental relationship
sensory transformation
Time period
- 31.12.2021
Group members - UEF
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Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä Professor , School of Humanities, Finnish Language and Cultural Research
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Juhana Venäläinen Assistant Professor , School of Humanities, Finnish Language and Cultural Research
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Heikki Uimonen Research Director , School of Humanities, Finnish Language and Cultural Research
Others
Other group members
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Rajko Mursic, Expert at University of Ljubljana rajko.mursic@ff.uni-lj.si
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Lesley Murray, Expert at University of Brighton lesleymurray@hotmail.com
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Laura Formenti, Expert at University of Milano Bicocca laura.formenti@unimib.it
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Milla Tiainen, Postdoc at University of Helsinki milla.tiainen@gmail.com