Sensing the (media) city

This article, originally delivered at the 16th international conference of Architectural Humanities Research Association (University Dundee, November 2019), seeks to engage with ‘emotive’, ‘sensorial’ and ‘affective turn’, as defined by authors in humanities, social cultural studies order consider emotional responses mediated experiences place inquire into how individuals collectives react a changing sensory environment. It adopts multi-disciplinary approach that blends historical, dimensions urban spaces places while maintaining focus on kind locative/interactive art which is less concerned representation more radical construction, engagement communication. The purpose try provide an answer question: what does ‘sensing city’ exactly entail when city’s form, Baudelaire memorably put it, ‘changes faster than human heart?’