“What if we designed for all our senses? Suppose, for a moment, that sound, touch, and odor were treated as the equals of sight, and that emotion was as important as cognition. What would our built environment be like if sensory response, sentiment, and memory were critical design factors, more vital even than structure and program?†– JOY MONICE MALNAR & FRANK VODVARKA Continue reading Imagine multisensory design
Tag Archives: senses
Miasmic intercourse
“Face-to-face interaction penetrates in a gaseous form into our most intimate inner being. The current Coronavirus outbreak surfaces a forgotten concept of communication that is deeply ingrained in culture: Face-to-face communication is a miasmic intercourse.”
– CLAUS NOPPENEY
Cognitive impotence
“If olfaction were his most important sense, man’s linguistic incapacity to describe olfactory sensations would turn him into a creature tied to his environment. Because they are ephemeral, olfactory sensations can never provide a persistent stimulus of thought. Thus the development of the sense of smell seems to be inversely related to the development of intelligence.” – ALAIN CORBIN
Deceptive powers
“Our eyes are not easy to fool. Smelling is another matter.”  – LEWIS THOMAS
Existential
“Whereas with other senses we make a conscious decision to look, listen, taste or touch, with smell it is often just an inherent aspect of existence — if you’re breathing, you’re smelling.” — BRIAN GOELTZENLEUCHTER
Simulation
“It is easier to make an airport tunnel smell like real jasmine than to use pictures, a video, or a trompe l’oeil to make people believe that they are walking through a real jasmine plantation in that tunnel.” – CHRISTOPHE LAUDAMIEL
An architectural time machine that fires scented smoke rings
Young London designer Hee Park manipulates space using smell, sound, and touch. Continue reading An architectural time machine that fires scented smoke rings
The Sensitivity of the Sense of Smell
More on how our sense of smell works…via IFF
