Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships in Europe, 1950–2020

This is a European Research Council funded project being led by Professor Helmi Järviluoma, University of Finland. It is seeking to understand how we sense the spaces around us and how this has changed and is changing over time. 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, through a new transgenerational methodology, ethnographic "sensobiography". The research studies individual and group links to broader social, cultural, and political issues in the medium-sized European cities of Brighton (UK), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Turku (Finland). The project facilitates a significant step from earlier methodologies toward large-scale, multisensory, transgenerational investigation, providing significant insights into culture with a sustainable future.