http://www.bagbooks.org/about-us/what-we-do/multi-sensory-books
Multi-sensory design for people with learning and sensory disabilities:
- Sensory rooms - What is the rooms purpose // who's going to use the room
- Types of sensory rooms:
Multi-sensory architecture
- The hierarchy of senses
- The figure illustrates the hierarchy of attentional capture by each of the senses as envisioned by Morton Heilig, the inventor of the Sensorama, the world’s first multisensory virtual reality apparatus
- Good article on the merging of senses - https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/04/03/why-sensory-design
- Fusion of mind, body, and sensation.
Anosmia - the loss of the ability to detect one or more smells
Anosmia smell wheel showing the monotony of smell loss, 2015; Christine Kelly (American and British, b. 1959)
Anosmia smell wheel 9 months after onset showing more intense but still not pleasant smell experiences, 2015; Christine Kelly
Synesthesia - stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.
- Music can play in color
- Letters can conjure sounds or textures
- When learning the alphabet, a child might link the color green with words that start with g. Such associations become fixed for life,
- David Genco, a graphic designer with synesthesia, assigns color, gender, and personality to numbers. In his interactive video project Synesthetic Calculus, video clips visualize unique ways of remembering numbers via sensory connections.
Synesthetic Calculus (stills), 2012; David Genco (Luxembourgian, b. 1985)
Neurologist Richard E. Cytowic:
- ” The human mind has a gift for connecting sensations — we link tastes and colors, sounds and spaces. Some people who are deaf or blind become acutely attuned to multiple senses, using areas of the brain typically devoted to sight or sound to process other inputs. People perceive objects and spaces with sound and touch as well as with vision. People experience sound by feeling vibrations and seeing movements as well as hearing by ear."
- “The brain doesn’t care where the signals come from — your eyes or your big toe. Send in anything, and the brain will figure it out. Reality takes shape in the dark theater of the brain.”
Bruce Mau - 'Design Live' essay -“To design for all the senses: start with a blindfold.”
Adam Jasper and Nadia Wagner - 'Smell' essay - "Smell sits at the bottom of the pyramid, in part because it resists attempts to be visually diagrammed"
Juhani Pallasmaa book 'Eyes of the Skin' questions the dominance of visual form and the Western obsession with “ocularcentrism.” (The privileging of vision over the other senses.)
Pallasmaa says architecture should embrace and envelop the body with authentic materials and tactile forms. Sensory design slows space down, making it feel thick rather than thin. An intimate room reverberates with shifting shadows and surfaces wrought from wood, wool, or stone. An atrium changes with the sun. Rough walls and dense fabrics absorb clatter and din.
Types of senory design:
- A scent player for Alzheimer’s patients stimulates the appetite by releasing the smell of grapefruit, curry, or chocolate cake at mealtimes.
- actile graphics are used to communicate ideas through the sense of touch.
- Buildings with spacious hallways and vibrant materials accommodate everyone, including people experiencing blindness, deafness, or memory loss.
Mapping
Graphic designer Kate McLean created a sensory map of Singapore using experiential data generated by over two hundred residents who went with her on “smellwalks.” Suspended in the humid air of this island city are the smells of curry, jasmine, and Manila rope. Little India and Kampong Glam are districts especially dense with scent. McLean’s map locates distinctive smells and visualizes their trajectories. Smell cannot be abstracted from bodily experience: “Using humans as sensors is a method that aggregates personal insight…. It is about the acceptance of the subjective as worthy and useful data.”
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