Re-embodying Education: Sensory and Visual Methodologies of Cellphilm and Walking with Video

The author connects walking with video, a method developed by sensory and visual ethnographer, Sarah Pink, with cellphilming, a participatory visual towards bringing an increased capacity to learn through the senses while doing walking cellphilm research. The chapter focuses on using a hybrid approach of walking cellphilms for sensory emplaced learning in and beyond classrooms to do research. The body is often ignored in post-secondary education because of the increasing virtual classroom and work environment, particularly so during COVID-19. During the pandemic, in a virtual classroom, the author had fellow participants (Ph.D. students) leave their desk to engage in walking cellphilm research in their neighborhoods. Walking cellphilms present a multisensorial engagement employing various intertwined and entangled senses (smell, touch, taste, visuals, kinesthetics, bodily-felt temperature and movements). Additionally, situating participant and researcher as embodied, beings immersed in space and environment—all contributing to the exploration of sensory emplaced learning. The chapter provides a pedagogical framework for using walking cellphilms, mapping out the details of the workshop and offering a reflexive perspective to multisensory emplaced learning as a way of encountering and experiencing place, space, relations and the environment.