ABSTRACT
This chapter examines sensory education in natural landscapes. The chapter first treads into a very digital world, that of apps and self-tracking designed to better lives through facilitating sensory awareness of our surroundings. These are technologies entangled in training to become more aware of individual experiences – our own symptoms and sensations for example – as well as our environment. I then look at gardens and parks and forest walks and show that even when we head offline or take off our shoes, there is still design and engineering shaping sensory education. That is, there is no ‘natural, unmediated’ sensory lesson that exists outside of a socio-material learning contexts, no matter how far into the deep dark woods we go.
