Sensorial experiences in the landscape extend our bodies into the world and shape the spaces we inhabit. The senses guide us through space as we see, hear, feel, touch, smell, taste and move through the landscape. We listen to birds chirping above our heads or feel a gust of wind brushing against our faces. We smell a fragrant
flower in the garden or feel engulfed by fresh ocean air along the coast. We touch the rough bark of a tree, and we are touched by hot sun beating down upon our backs. In urban spaces we are immersed in a mixed collage of odors that might include hot dogs, perfume, trash bins and automobile exhaust. Landscapes that are biodiverse and ecologically rich enhance the sensorial qualities of a space and stimulate our senses in different ways, depending on our age, cultural background, physical and mental condition and emotional state at any given moment in time. Sensorial design is about attending to the senses as we design and giving them agency over the more tangible physical and material aspects of space through embodied, less visually
dominated, modes of expression.
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