This site is dedicated to exploring the emergent field of sensory design, which is to say: designing, building, making and experiencing atmospheres and objects via the senses – all of them. Two exhibitions, Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism (2006) and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision (2018), provide the starting point for these investigations. Sensory ethnography is our methodology of choice.

This site also presents the outcomes of two related research-creation projects – “Sonic Transgressions” (2022– ) and “Sensory Entanglements” (2015–2022).

Explorations in Sensory Design

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