Sanne Schoenmaker
I'm an Amsterdam-based researcher, writer and founder of Echo Room: the first longitudinal instrument measuring the long-term impact of museum visits. Echo Room captures immediate emotional response after an exhibition and returns eight weeks later to ask what stayed. The resulting dataset connects felt aesthetic experience to sustained cultural participation at scale.
I'm Sanne Schoenmaker, an Amsterdam-based researcher, writer, and entrepreneur and the founder of Echo Room: the first longitudinal instrument measuring the long-term cultural impact of museum visits. Echo Room captures visitors' immediate emotional response after an exhibition and returns eight weeks later to ask what stayed: visually, emotionally, and behaviourally. The project draws on elaborative encoding theory and empirical aesthetics. Particularly the work of Eva Specker and the taxonomy developed by Christensen, Cardillo and Chatterjee, to connect felt aesthetic experience to sustained cultural participation at scale. I'm joining the NRC community to connect with researchers working at the intersection of aesthetic experience, memory, and behaviour. And to contribute a dataset and instrument that I hope will be useful to the field.