Université Libre de Bruxelles
As part of lectures centred on the relationships between the body and material environment, we have been setting up an experience aiming at making students concretely feel those relationships for the past two years. In this case, it is about taking a walk, lasting about one hour and a half, following a pre-established itinerary, going through the European quarter and leading to Matongé. Quite limited recommendations ask the students to feel the journey through their senses, trying to not predominantly resort to sight as much as possible. At the end of their stroll, they are being asked to narrate their experience in writing in a report 2 to 3 pages long.
This paper aims at presenting a synthesis of the contents of a hundred or so available reports on the same itinerary, focusing on the differences and similarities of sensations induced by urban objects walked past (avenue de la Loi, avenue Belliard, mail, European Parliament, Parc Leopold, chaussée de Wavre...).