Sensory Design Lecture

Sensory Design 

KEY POINTS:

The senses and the designed environment insight into the senses

• Design Judgment  - Theoretical and practical
• Inform your design – velation – end point
• We can not see human experiences
• How do we grasp home as it is lived and experienced?
• The emotions of home = comfort
• Capturing lived experience – embodied experience
• By pass the body and straight to reflection – not governed by reflection – knowing
• Eg.  Typing – knowing how to type without knowing where specific keys are located on the key board.

 Multisensorial
-      Responding to a version of perception

 Experiences mediated by the sense 
-      Smell and memory
How a smell can evoke the memory of a significant time
Imprinted in the body – human behaviour

 The feeling of sunlight – tactile 
-      Feel of an atmosphere
-      The specific spot, window, shape
Specific to the space and people – not just aesthetic – access – Art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world.
Develop empathic imagination
Turn a space to support and enhance human dispositions