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Sensory Transformations This book offers original insights into cultural transformations of the sensory with particular emphasis on environments and technologies, articulating a special moment in the sensory history of urban Europe as people’s relationship with their environment is increasingly shaped through digital technologies. It is a much-needed addition to Sensory Studies literature with its firmly grounded empirical and theoretical perspectives. It provides radical and impactful food for thought on sensory engagements with urban environments. After reading the book, the reader will have a profound understanding of the original methodology of sensobiographic walking, as well as transdisciplinary and transgenerational ethnographies in different cultural contexts – in this case three European cities. The book is aimed at a large audience of readers. It is equally useful for social and human scientists and students finalizing their MA degrees or working on their doctoral or post-doctoral work, and essential reading for environmental planners, youth workers, city planners and architects, among others. Helmi Järviluoma is a Finnish sound, music and cultural scholar and writer. She is Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. As sensory and soundscape ethnographer, Järviluoma has developed the mobile method of sensobiographic walking. Her research and art span the fields of sensory remembering, qualitative methodology (especially regarding gender), environmental cultural studies, sound art and fiction writing. In 2016, she received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council ERC, in order to study Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships, 1950–2020 SENSOTRA in the three European cities. Among her 180 publications, co-authored Gender and Qualitative Methods (2003/2010) continues to draw attention. She has written and directed six radio features for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. The Finnish Union of University Professors selected Helmi Järviluoma as professor of the year 2019; 2018 Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, invited her as a member. Lesley Murray is Professor of Spatial Sociology at the University of Brighton, UK, where her research centres around the social and cultural aspects of transport and mobilities. She has written extensively on gendered and generational mobilities as well as mobile methodologies. Her publications include Children’s Mobilities: Interdependent, Imagined, Relational (co-author, 2019); Mobile methodologies (co-editor, 2010); Researching mobilities: transdisciplinary encounters (co-editor, 2014); Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, age and lifecourse (co-editor, Routledge 2017); and Families in Motion: Space, Time, Materials and Emotion (co-editor, 2019). Her most recent research was as principal investigator on a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project (AH/V013122/1) on the immobilities of gender-based violence in the COVID-19 pandemic. Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces Series Editors: Rainer Kazig CNRS Research Laboratory Ambiances – Architectures – Urbanités, Grenoble, France Damien Masson Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Paul Simpson Plymouth University, UK Research on ambiances and atmospheres has grown significantly in recent years in a range of disciplines, including Francophone architecture and urban studies, German research related to philosophy and aesthetics, and a growing range of Anglophone research on affective atmospheres within human geography and sociology. This series offers a forum for research that engages with questions around ambiances and atmospheres in exploring their significances in understanding social life. Each book in the series advances some combination of theoretical understandings, practical knowledges and methodological approaches. More specifically, a range of key questions which contributions to the series seek to address includes: • In what ways do ambiances and atmospheres play a part in the unfolding of social life in a variety of settings? • What kinds of ethical, aesthetic, and political possibilities might be opened up and cultivated through a focus on atmospheres/ambiances? • How do actors such as planners, architects, managers, commercial interests and public authorities actively engage with ambiances and atmospheres or seek to shape them? How might these ambiances and atmospheres be reshaped towards critical ends? • What original forms of representations can be found today to (re) present the sensory, the atmospheric, the experiential? What sort of writing, modes of expression, or vocabulary is required? What research methodologies and practices might we employ in engaging with ambiances and atmospheres? Sensory Transformations Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies Helmi Järviluoma and Lesley Murray Ambiance, Tourism and the City Edited by Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros, Daniel Paiva and Daniel Malet Calvo For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Ambiances-Atmospheres-and-Sensory-Experiences-of-Spaces/book-series/AMB Sensory Transformations Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies Edited by Helmi Järviluoma and Lesley Murray First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Helmi Järviluoma and Lesley Murray; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Helmi Järviluoma and Lesley Murray to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Järviluoma, Helmi, editor. | Murray, Lesley, 1966– editor. Title: Sensory transformations : environments, technologies, sensobiographies / edited by Helmi Järviluoma and Lesley Murray. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Ambiences, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022050664 (print) | LCCN 2022050665 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367674311 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003131342 (paperback) | ISBN 9780367674342 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Cities and towns--Social aspects. | Spatial behavior—Social aspects. | Senses and sensation—Social aspects. | Information technology—Social aspects. Classification: LCC HT119 .S46 2023 (print) | LCC HT119 (ebook) | DDC 307.76—dc23/eng/20230113 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022050664 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022050665 ISBN: 978-0-367-67431-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-67434-2 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-13134-2 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003131342 Typeset in Baskerville by Apex CoVantage, LLC In memory of our mothers Silja and Joan Contents List of tables ix List of figures x List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xv 1 Cultural transformations and mediations revealed through transgenerational sensobiographies 1 HELMI JÄRVILUOMA AND LESLEY MURRAY PART 1 Transforming knowledge: methodological design 23 2 Embodied dialogues: a transformative pedagogy of space, time, and identity 25 LAURA FORMENTI AND SILVIA LURASCHI 3 Anthropology of the senses/sensory anthropology: pre-theoretical commitments and their consequences 49 BLAŽ BAJIČ 4 Sensorial narrations on music and dance: extrapolating affect from sensobiographic walks 68 RAJKO MURŠIČ 5 Analysing the SENSOTRA project: collaborative coding 89 LESLEY MURRAY, HENNA VOLOTINEN AND JARI RUOTSALAINEN PART 2 Transforming cultures: finding each other in time and space 97 6 Sensobiography as a mobile search for relational knowledge 99 HELMI JÄRVILUOMA viii Contents 7 Senses on/of the move: mobilities, place-making, and the urban sensory commons 123 JUHANA VENÄLÄINEN 8 Senso-mobile and generational tactics of diverse city spaces 140 LESLEY MURRAY 9 Wartime Ljubljana and early socialist Yugoslavia on the tip of the Tongue 163 SANDI ABRAM 10 City atmosphere forming place attachment: the case of Brighton (UK) 181 EEVA PÄRJÄLÄ 11 ‘With some people you share a level’: digitechnological likenessing in urban space 205 SONJA PÖLLÄNEN PART 3 Mediating transformations 219 12 Immediacies of mediation: exploring the co-emergence of media, environments and sensory experiences 221 MILLA TIAINEN 13 Urban nature and digital media technologies entangled: sensobiographies of young people in Turku, Finland 241 INKERI AULA 14 Civic disobedience and counter-cultural politics: towards culture-historical sensobiographies 263 HEIKKI UIMONEN Index 282 Tables 10.1 Category-bound features from Stella’s excerpt 187