Sense-Making

In this highly innovative work, the senses are liberated from the confines of the present to serve as vehicles for accessing other historical periods and imagined futures. Sense-Making builds on the burgeoning field of sensory ethnography by introducing a pair of methodologie expressly devised to facilitate time-travel.

Sheryl Boyle is Director of the Carleton Sensory Architecture & Liminal Technology (CSALT) lab in Ottawa, Canada, where she supervises immersive materials research and innovative design and assembly processes.
Genevieve Collins is completing a PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media from the University of Manchester, UK. She has worked in the arts and cultural industry of Winnipeg, Canada, and is the co-creative director of a film production company.
David Howes is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Canada. In 2024, he was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada.