* Note: The series of photographs is part of the photographic series Sensory Knowledge.

Through our educational and research practice we try to understand what are the new properties of space itself (not only ocean space), its texture, viscosity, atmosphere, temperature, physical properties that people experience.

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A sensory is defined as the sum of how a person perceives feelings through an interpretation of the environment in which they are found. The different proportions of feelings that make up the sensory and semantic means by which we come to understand and move in space are dependent on shared cultural norms, and consequently vary depending on the social context and geographic location.

Adapting to and succeeding in interacting with environments like the atmospheric world involves reorganizing the ground sensor.

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In our situational and embodied practice, we are engaged in researching and developing ways in which not only people, but also others, find contact with their surroundings. Certain spaces or circumstances to which we are not accustomed make the study of physical experience less problematic, as the disruption of expected daily functioning leads to a greater and increased perception that allows us to rediscover phenomena.

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Different places require different ways of being. (Journal entry)

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As we develop the necessary skills to conquer an as yet unexplored environment, our sensory envelope is reconfigured to perceive as effectively as possible the sights, sounds, feelings that shape our experience and understanding of our surroundings.

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We dare to assert that it is the ambiguity of affective atmospheres, between the present and the absent, between subject and object, between the certain and the indefinite, that allows us to reflect on the affective experience that takes place outside, around and beside the forms of subjectivity.

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Atmosphere is –
impersonal or transparent identity – environment or transmission of feelings of another – tone in literature –
mimetic waves of sentiment –
feeling (of) place.

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The human body functions similarly to an air filter, through which material and affective atmosphere constantly travels. Feeling the air and walking on the ground does not mean making external tactile contact with the environment, but mixing with it. The relationship between air and atmosphere is both passive and active.

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The ability of air (as with other forms of weather) to blur the differences between bodies and the environment, both inside and outside, where the air is charged with a sensory intensity that is recognized as part of a dynamic atmosphere. It also has special aspects of moisture, thickness and motion that are physically linked to an affective atmosphere.

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The notion of weather interconnectedness in an open world can be expanded to include extraplanetary openness. The joining and blending of earth and sky extends beyond Earth, into an extraplanetary realm.

Weather, place and being are inseparable, but because they are so deeply connected, we often forget about their interconnectedness. Weather as an unavoidable medium for our existence in the world.

The weather world is a universe composed of many weather processes that shape different weather locations.

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We may feel the weather in the present moment, but our feelings are influenced by sensory abilities that are based on memories and habits. Embracing the weather world is a practice that shapes our place in the world.

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I observe on myself what the weather does to me, but also how it affects people around me. In the educational and research environment Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) we learn to be friends with the weather, to coexist, to move together with its movements, gusts, we devote all our time to this existence.

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We are our weather,
his movements are our rhythms,
his direction is our itinerary,
his comings and goings
are our risks and opportunities.

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British geographer and social scientist Doreen Massey ponders the mobility and ever-evolving topologies of landscapes. She suggests that initiation into the space-time of a place may provide a space for knowledge and imagination that lies beyond the immediacy of our experience or our memory.