Raed Yahya AlBanna - Completion Seminar Presentation

Abstract: Educators, architects and other stakeholders are keen to understand students’ perceptions of school learning environments and how they shape thoughts, emotions, and learning processes.

In this research, I investigate how students’ experience the environments at 'Pine Tree Primary School'. I analyse the complex connections between students, teachers, spaces, and objects, highlighting their interactions through movement, place, and multisensory interactions. Instead of seeing people, space, and tools as separate, this study adopts a holistic perspective using sensory ethnography.

I apply a sensory approach to ethnographic techniques, such as photography, focused observations, sketching, and reflexive practices to reveal a meshwork of lived experiences, where stories of entanglement unfold through the ongoing interactions of bodies, spaces, and materials as they flow through everyday life at school.