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Abstract :
[en] The paper will present the results of a research that aims to document how ordinary people engage in the process of sensory meaning making with a forest environment. The encounter with the forest from which the data were collected took place during a 2 hours’ workshop under the guidance of a drama teacher who led the participants for a “walk” in varied landscapes, at different speeds. Instructions were: “to move silently, together, but by yourself”, and to “be careful not to disturb anything”. Such instructions were intended to foster a kind of responsive relatedness between participants and the forest (including the wind, rain, cold, soil, animals, etc.). After the workshop, we interviewed the participant about “a moment of the ‘walk’ that was significant for them regarding the instruction of ‘do not disturb anything’”. We used micro-phenomenology interviews to document the precise unfolding of their experience in its sensorial, emotional and cognitive dimensions. In this presentation, we’ll discuss the body conversations that take place between the participants and their surrounding and the role of the senses, and their integration, in the making of meaning.
