Tag: Sensory

Sensory experience: coming in

This morning I conducted my first sensory ethnography ‘observation’ in the Courtyard Entrance of the Fitzwilliam Museum. I chose this for my first experience, as it’s one of two entrances to the Museum and therefore a key transitional space. I started the experience wi...

Sensory experience (ii) sitting on the steps

[As I was writing the image description for the door frame and signage, I realise that it doesn’t show you the way to the entrance/exit]. As soon as I walked in, I realised that the two display cases present an immediate block — you have to walk round them to get to the other side of ...

The Sensory Joys of Gender Transition

My experience is different from many other transgender individuals. The key phrase is “Your Mileage May Vary” or YMMV. It is a phrase taken from the car industry to describe how the effects of hormones vary from one person to another. Every human body is so radically different from anoth...