"Senses and Lenses"

A sense of place can be in the form of a cognitive consciousness (or intellectual abstraction), but full appreciation of the meaning of place can only be experienced through the senses – the smell, taste, feel, sound, sight and spiritual dimensions of place – that we all experience whether we are aware of them or not.
 

We have used “senses of place” to be a metaphor to include all the different ways of experiencing, embodying and manifesting place. Equally, ‘lenses’ is a metaphor for the different ways of looking at place or representing place – at different scales, from different disciplinary perspectives, using different media, and from the perspectives of different actors.

Vanclay, F., Conference Handbook, Senses of place: exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses, April 2006, Hobart. p 1.