By focusing on the embodied, the extended, and the environing qualities that sensing has, the seminar oriented around how perception can be habituated as well as unlearned.

Sensing can be manifold and radically divergent depending on the practices and entities involved in “making sense,” yet “the senses” are often classified according to well-known categories, where the sites of sensation are often described through humanistic lenses. However, sensing could be transformed through more-than-human and environmental affiliations that distribute sensation rather than make it the privileged domain of cognizing humans. This seminar, part of The Shape of a Practice public programme, explored how default approaches to sensing are a product of specific cultural, political, or even human habits. By focusing on the embodied, the extended, and the environing qualities that sensing has, the seminar oriented around how perception can be habituated as well as unlearned.