ABSTRACT
This chapter describes sensobiographic walking as a mobile search for relational knowledge, through which people on the move are talking sensory life into being. It is argued that the method constitutes a valid option for studying the embodied, mobile, and site-specific emergence of sensory experiences and recollection. Sensobiographic walking is the culmination of a long series of attempts to chase the elusive phenomena related to sensory remembering, so the method has a long history. Firstly, the chapter states why the word “biography” will be used in this chapter, followed by a comparison of selected versions of walking methodologies and sensobiographic walking. The chapter focuses on two particularly vivid transgenerational walks, supplemented by data from other sensobiographic walks undertaken in Turku, Brighton, and Ljubljana. In light of the analysis, it becomes clear that the concepts of atmospheres and intra-action can be productively used when studying sensobiographic remembering. The sensory atmospheres and their remembering become relations as the walkers participated in the unfolding of negotiations and definitions of smells, creaks, and sounds that percolated through the transgenerational togetherness. The participants in sensobiographic walks who are of different generations are constantly perceiving, interpreting, remembering, and producing their lived environment in multi-sensory ways.
