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Sensory Bike Tour - Placemaking Week 2025

Sense of place: Sensory bike tour

Each route will activate one of the senses and will allow participants to feel the effect the senses have on our experience of the city, its design and ultimately on the well-being of its inhabitants/visitors. At the endpoint of the tour, all participants come together and discuss the insights gathered. This method reveals how sensory experience shapes well-being, while also highlighting how human-scaled mobility - like cycling - can connect people to place, and to each other, across local and urban scales.


Group 1: Hearing - Instructions Sensory Bike Tour in Reggio Emilia

  • Assignment at each stop location 
  • - Make sure you take some space for yourself and find a place where you can be alone for a while/don't talk. Take notes at each location.  
    - Take photos or make recordings at each location, that can be shared with the group later.

Hearing: Questions to ask yourself at each stop location
- What four different things can you hear? What kinds of things can you hear at the same time?
- What stands out (more) when you close your eyes?
  • - Which sounds appeal to you and which do not?
    - What associations do specific sounds evoke?

 

Group 2: Seeing - Instructions Sensory Bike Tour in Reggio Emilia

  • Assignment at each stop location
  • - Make sure you take some space for yourself and find a place where you can be alone for a while/don't talk. Take notes at each location.  
    - Take photos or make recordings at each location, that can be shared with the group later.

Seeing: Questions to ask yourself at each stop location
- What four different things can you see?
- How do you experience the city in ways other than at eye level, for example from a frog's or bird's view perspective? Or through the lens of a camera? Can you zoom in on a specific surface?
- Which images/sights appeal to you and which do not?
- What associations do specific sights evoke?
 

Group 3: Smell - Instructions Sensory Bike Tour in Reggio Emilia

  • Assignment at each stop location
    - Make sure you take some space for yourself and find a place where you can be alone for a while/don't talk. Take notes at each location.  
    - Take photos or make recordings at each location, that can be shared with the group later.

    Smell: Questions to ask yourself at each stop location
    - What four different things do you smell? What are the transitions in terms of smell?
    - Which smells appeal to you and which do not?
    - Is your sense of smell different when you close your eyes?
    - What associations do specific smells evoke?

 

Group 4: Touch - Instructions Sensory Bike Tour in Reggio Emilia

  • Assignment at each stop location
    - Make sure you take some space for yourself and find a place where you can be alone for a while/don't talk. Take notes at each location.  
    - Take photos or make recordings at each location, that can be shared with the group later.

Touch: Questions to ask yourself at/what to do at each stop location
- At each stop, touch four different objects (fences, trees, surfaces, buildings, walls etc.).
- Touch with your fingers, with your whole hands, and also with your feet.
- What do you feel (differently) when you close your eyes?
- What associations do specific objects/textures evoke?
 

Afterwards: Reflection

Each group:

4 questions with stickers on the card (1 colour per sense)
- Which moment (in which place) did you find most meaningful, and why? (check sticker)
- What did you perceive most strongly with your senses - and where was this? (check sticker)
- Were there moments when a sense surprised or misled you? (check sticker)
- Where else would you have liked to stop and why? (check sticker)
 
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