The long journey to senso-digital walking : exploring fragility and care in an Alpine valley

Abram, Sandi (author)

This paper explores walking as a research tool and cultural practice, tracing the trajectories of its intellectual and methodological development in the social sciences and humanities. It examines early intersections between walking and aesthetic practices in the 20th centur y,highlighting key debates and advances. It then introduces senso-digital walks, an ethnographic method used in the Solčavsko region (Slovenia) to explore the understandings that emerge from a combination of sensory perceptions, environmental transformations, and digital technologies, while examining care, fragility, and localism.

• Language: English
• Keywords: cultural anthropology, walking ethnography, walks, environmental fragility, sensory perceptions, senso-digital walks, Alps
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication date: 01.02.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 115-129
• Numbering: Letn. 3, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179538
• UDC: 39:159.93
• ISSN on article: 2820-6088
• DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.3.1.115-129
• COBISS.SI-ID: 228981251
• Publication date in RUL: 16.02.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Svetovi
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2820-6088
• COBISS.SI-ID: 148550403

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Dolga pot do čutno-digitalnih sprehodov : raziskovanje krhkosti in skrbi v alpski dolini

Abstract

Prispevek obravnava sprehod kot raziskovalno orodje in kulturno prakso ter sledi njegovemu intelektualnemu in metodološkemu razvoju v družboslovju in humanistiki. Analizira zgodnja presečišča med sprehodom in estetskimi praksami dvajsetega stoletja, kjer so izpostavljene ključne polemike in premiki na tem področju. Nato so predstavljeni čutno-digitalni sprehodi, etnografska metoda, ki je bila na Solčavskem (v Sloveniji) uporabljena za raziskovanje razumevanj, ki izhajajo iz čutnih zaznav, preobrazbe okolja in digitalnih tehnologij, pri tem pa preučuje skrb, krhkost in lokalnost.

• Keywords: kulturna antropologija, sprehajalna etnografija, sprehodi, okolje, čutna zaznava, čutno-digitalni sprehodi, Alpe

Projects

• Funder: AKA - Academy of Finland
• Project number: 353876
• Name: Digital Aestheticization of Fragile Environments (DigiFREN)

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0187
• Name: Etnološke raziskave kulturnih znanj, praks in oblik socialnosti