(Please, scroll down to read a summary in English.) SENSOTRA-hankkeessa tutkitaan eri sukupolvien edustajien kokemuksia omasta elinympäristöstään. Erityisen kiinnostuneita projektin tutkijat ovat olleet siitä, miten erilaiset laitteet ja teknologiset apuvälineet vaikuttavat ihmisten elämään. Tutkimuksen kohteena on kolmen keskisuuren eurooppalaisen kaupungin – Turun, Brightonin ja Ljubljanan – elettyjen aistiympäristöjen muutos aikavälillä 1950—2021. Puolet tutkittavista on eri […]

The sensescape is not the same for everybody. Our subjectivity and sensibility, shaped by previous experience, make us feel some qualities of the space around us in a specific way. We react differently to heat and wind, to the smell of a flower or the noise of traffic. Our heart beats for the mountains in […]

Leto 2020 je leto improviziranja in eksperimentiranja. Razlog je znan. Tako imenovano socialno distanciranje, ki seveda ni nič drugega kot fizično distanciranje, je v službi preprečevanja širjenja virusa Covid-19 poseglo tudi v izvedbo Sejma akademske knjige Liber.ac. Ta je bil, kot vsako leto, namenjen promociji akademske knjižne produkcije v širši javnosti, a je tokat potekal […]

June 29, 2020 was a long-awaited day in Finland. After the three months of staring steadily at the first rapidly rising and then slowly declining Covid-19 figures, the number of patients in intensive care finally went back to zero. Already two weeks earlier, the Finnish government had revoked the Emergency Powers Act, signalling a steady […]