Descrizione del progetto
Esplorare le trasformazioni culturali del mondo sensoriale attraverso le generazioni
Le persone spesso sperimentano trasformazioni sociali e culturali nel corso della loro vita. Di conseguenza, i valori che gli individui possiedono e il modo in cui percepiscono il loro ambiente variano da una generazione all’altra. È fondamentale che tutta la società sia in grado di connettersi in modo senziente con il proprio ambiente, in particolare negli spazi urbani condivisi. Il progetto SENSOTRA, finanziato dal CER, analizzerà le trasformazioni delle relazioni ambientali sensoriali in tre metropoli europee in un arco di tempo di 70 anni. Utilizzando nuove metodologie transgenerazionali ed etnografiche, il progetto intende fornire conoscenze in merito alla sostenibilità culturale. I risultati della ricerca dispongono del potenziale per ripercuotersi su una serie di campi interdisciplinari, come il turismo, l’estetica ambientale, l’assistenza agli anziani, la cultura giovanile e la storia dei media.
Obiettivo
This 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. The research is urgent: at present we are still able to study people ethnographically who were born in the 1930s and 1940s,who therefore lived their early years without digital technologies. The moment is also ideally suited for studying generations born straight into the digital world, where there is a need to enable young and older people to maintain a many-faceted relationship with their environments. The project's three research strands are (1) transformations in mediations of sensory experience, (2) embodied remembering and senses, and (3) sensory commons. These strands will be studied via a research strategy linking individuals and groups to broader social, cultural, and political issues in the medium-sized European cities of Brighton (UK), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Turku (Finland). Temporally and spatially tightly focused dynamic ethnography makes it possible to examine multiple modes of past and present sensory experiencing. The study of artists as “sensewitnesses” will become one of the pivotal endeavours. The project facilitates a significant step from earlier methodologies toward large-scale, multisensory, transgenerational investigation, providing significant insights into culture with a sustainable future.
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantIstituzione ospitante
70211 KUOPIO
Finlandia