Sense Walk

A Sense Walk is a form of sensory walking that invites us to experience and understand space through more than sight. By shifting attention towards smell, sound, touch and temperature, familiar environments can be perceived in new ways.

The performance explores how strongly our perception of a place is shaped by the senses we usually take for granted. Participants are guided along a route and invited to consciously notice and describe the smells encountered along the way, from natural and urban environments to traces of human activity.

By temporarily shifting the focus away from vision, the walk reveals an olfactory landscape that is constantly present but rarely consciously perceived.

Walking becomes a way of smelling a place.