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Multisensory Modalities
Visual
Video, photography and mixed media
Auditory
Music and soundscapes
Tactile
Dance, movement and touch
Olfactory
Smell
Gustatatory
Taste
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What is the Multisensory Studio?
The Multisensory Studio provides a space to create and share stories with the senses. We focus on blending sensory and arts-based methods in research design and knowledge translation.
The Multisensory Studio strives to provide an accessible environment to support the creation, engagement, and enactment of stories by, for, with, and alongside the disability community.
What does multisensory mean?
The concept of multisensory refers to the many ways we experience the world around us. The term multisensory is commonly used to discuss the following senses: visual (sight), auditory (sound), tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), and gustatory (taste).
What is multisensory storytelling?
To us, multisensory storytelling involves both the creating and sharing of life-stories that we can look at, listen to, smell and taste, feel and experience.
What is digital storytelling?
Digital storytelling combines the tradition of storytelling with digital technology. Often, digital storytelling invites storytellers to use multiple forms of media (e.g. still and moving images, music, narration) to tell a personal story.
Meet the Team
Kathleen Sitter (She/Her)
Canada Research Chair, Multisensory Storytelling in Research and Knowledge Translation Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
Mica Pabia (She/Her)
Coordinator (BSc. Hons. BSW)
Alison L. Grittner (She/Her)
Artist in Residence (BA, MArch)
Brooke Allemang (She/Her)
Graduate Research Assistant (MSW, RSW)
Carly-Ann Haney (She/They)
Graduate Research Assistant (MSW, RSW)
Mihaela Slabé (She/Her)
Graduate Research Assistant (BFA)
Emma Gaunt (She/Her)
Research Assistant (BSW)
Asil El Galad (She/Her)
Facilitator
Britney Lamb (She/Her)
Facilitator
Ashlynn Weisberg (She/Her)
Facilitator
Kevin Currie (He/Him)
Artist and Advisor
Heath Birkholz (He/Him)
Artistic Collaborator
Sarah Empey (She/Her)
Accessibility Advisor
Bruce Howell (He/Him)
Community Collaborator
Tara Wickens (She/Her)
Volunteer (BSc, BSW)
Story Section
Franni McGuiness
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Story Section
Franni McGuiness
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Story Section
Terrance Farwark
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