Sensewalk is an exercise where one person is blindfolded while their partner guides them. The blindfolded person feels uncomfortable and clutches their partner due to expecting obstacles. Their senses are heightened, as they are overly sensitive to sounds and smells. They can still see light but flinch at changes. This creates a sixth sense of anticipating obstacles. The blindfolded person feels fear, a lack of trust in their partner, and that the guide has more power over them.

1. Sensewalk

2. Body
• Uncomfortable – try to hide your body, hunched. Clutching at partner
• Clumsy – as much due to expecting obstacles as them actually being
difficult
• Embodiment of how you think others perceive you, reshaping the
corporeal
• Internalise your affectual relationship with space

3. Senses
• Hearing – overly sensitive, thought cars were much closer than they
actually were
• Touch through the feet and hands – feet for steps, hands for door,
rails
• Smell – emotive – Sam could smell Strathcona, Sarah Geography.
Smell of coffee in cafes, diesel at building sites- becomes really sickly
• Could still see changes in light – became very physical, flinching back
• Combination of other senses to create a sixth sense – anticipating
obstacles – sometimes unnecessarily

4. Power
• Fear – physically frightened about unseen dangers
• Temptation to screw with partner – not tell them about
changes/obstacles. Felt a distinct lack of trust
• Power lies with the guide much more than when walking backwards.
Tendency to clutch at their arm.
• Fear of the dark makes things much more visceral
• Gaze – hear a group of laddish people/someone laughing in the
distance