ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which visual and sensory methods can enable the complex interactions between physical and cultural landscapes. It describes how methods such as the walk, the go-along interview, and photography were used by a group of students and researchers in the Norwegian town of Vardø to explore how the town could be understood phenomenologically as a place and a cultural landscape. The chapter suggests that the walk, the go-along interview, and photographing are useful ways for researchers to get attuned socially, materially, and sensorially to landscapes. These visual and sensory modes of inquiry provided an in-depth understanding of the textures of social experience and the meaning of Vardø as a lived everyday place. They could provide a glimpse of how the local residents see their world, what is important to them, what their lived social relations are, how they view local history, and their affective attachments to place.
