[1][2] It provides a possibility for the study of rich, embodied and site-specific emergence of sensory remembering and experiences.
The method was developed by professor Helmi Järviluoma with her colleagues for studying transgenerational environmental relationships, engaging participant pairs composed of different generations for the large European Research Council project on Sensory Transformations (SENSOTRA) in Europe between 1950--2020.
[5][6] Sensobiography has, as well, been inspired by the concept of topobiography[7] in human geography – the description of a life-course as it relates to lived places.
To follow Doreen Massey (2005), it can be argued that, in cultural spaces, different times and temporalities fertilize each other experientially and epistemologically, creating new combinations where diachronic and synchronic methods can be interwoven into a multi-sited ethnography.
Sensobiographic walking is a method for gathering research material on sensory environmental relationships.