Body, Sense, and Landscape: A Roundtable Discussion on Sensory Approaches and Embodied Knowledge through Multimodality Practices

Roundtable Convenor(s)

• ZH

  Zaki Habibi

  Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia

Roundtable Chair(s)

• ZH

  Zaki Habibi

  Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia

Roundtable Participant(s)

• ZH

  Zaki Habibi

  Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
• MN

  Muzayin Nazaruddin

  Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
• MG

  Marjito Iskandar Tri Gunawan

  Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Indonesia
• AW

  Anugrah Pambudi Wicaksono

  Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
• RW

  Risky Wahyudi

  Independent Researcher, Indonesia
• DA

  Dian Dwi Anisa

  Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
• CT

  Caron Toshiko

  Gueari Galeri, Indonesia

Roundtable Abstract:

The way in which we understand complex social experiences mostly relies upon the works of logical mind within our constructed social structures. However, what are the roles of everyday practices in producing and retrieving knowledge? How do human bodies and senses might have significant contribution to understand the spaces and places people interact to each other? This proposed Roundtable departs from such critical questions, offering a space for discussion that explores the interlinkage between body, sense, landscape, and knowledge. The invitation for further discussion will foreground, particularly, on the use of sensory approaches through multimodality practices in everyday life that might reveal – or even construct – any embodied knowledge in the contexts of contemporary Southeast Asian societies and environmental challenges they have to face nowadays. The participants of this Roundtable come from various disciplines (such as, arts, media studies, gender studies, environmental communication, and environmental humanities) as well as shows a variety of professions (university lecturers, researchers, post-graduate student, documentary filmmaker, and photobook artist and gallery owner). To intrigue a deeper discussion with the audiences, participants will share their own experiences in their own field and profession regarding various approaches and methods informed by sensory approaches and/or the interrelation of body-sense-landscape that can be employed for investigating, knowing, and constructing alternative narratives. In terms of sub-topics of these diverse-yet-connected experiences, participants of this Roundtable will address several aspects, including (1) sensory approach in urban Penang, Malaysia and Bandung, Indonesia: from urban walking, rephotography, to narrative cartography, (2) participatory map, disaster memory, and landscape in Aceh, Indonesia (3) documentary film and environmental justice, (4) senses and the sea, as experienced by the coastal communities in Aceh, Indonesia (5) ethno-photography, lakes, and environmental resilience in West Sumatera, Indonesia, (6) making home: women’s interaction in common living environment in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and (7) exploring body, gender and sexuality through therapeutic photography. By proposing our scholarly research and artistic experiences, as mentioned above, we expect to engage with wider audiences to reflect upon their own research and professional works that could be explored further in cross-disciplinary or even transdisciplinary ways by considering the importance of body, sense, and landscape in knowledge production and dissemination.