Sensing/Knowing

April 23rd, 2016

How can we move out of our habitual mode of engaging with space? A field guide for taking a walk through out senses.

Within the framework of the Anthropocene Campus seminar Knowing (in) the Anthropocene, Max Symuleski, offered a philosophical walking exercise in Berlin’s centrally located Tiergarten. Following Alfred North Whitehead and his concept of the “bifurcation of nature,” as a provocation for thinking about the primacy of our senses in daily patterns of interaction with the environment, participants approached various problems of perception, by means of walking, listening, hearing, smelling.