ABSTRACT
The digitization of human bodies and health states should take account of the sensory, embodied, and material forms that health data take: marks on the body, feelings, sounds, scents, details relayed in conversations or gauged from practices, and environments. This chapter describes processes of facilitating more-than-human sensory engagements with these lively data. Sensory ethnography brought together arts-based, creative, and interactive research methods for participant engagement and research translation, aligning with the sensory pedagogical and sensory museology approaches. The methods used in the “Creative Approaches to Health Information Ecologies” project are discussed, which in turn contributed to the production of a short film for showing at our “More-than-Human Wellbeing” exhibition. This exhibition, designed for research-creation and public engagement and research translation, rested on the standpoint that human states of embodiment, health, and well-being are always entangled in the complex dynamics and materialities of planetary health.
