Senses & Sense-Making

Field Forum is a series curated by curated by Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan that centres the interconnectedness embedded in the built environment, attuning our senses to material flows, planetary scales, intergenerational times and all the life entangled in these processes.

Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018), Correspondences (2020), Imagining for Real (2022) and The Rise and Fall of Generation Now (2023). Ingold is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2022 he was made a CBE for services to Anthropology.

Michaela Büsse is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist based in Berlin. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Technische Universität Dresden and the Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, as well as an Associated Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on spatial and material transformations in the context of speculative urbanism, climate change mitigation, and energy transitions. Drawing on environmental humanities and feminist science and technology studies, she examines how design practices and technologies govern environments and define who and what is rendered inhuman.

Image: Chen Zhan, “Peeling Beach,” 2024, Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

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