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SENSORY DESIGN
(2017)
BRIEF:
To design in groups an interior space, or sequence of spaces that when experienced, will incite a particular behavioural response, through the carefully considered use of “sensory design”.
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An extensive site analysis of a 'tense and anxious' outdoor environment should be undertaken to observe sensory and phenomenal information to inform the design proposal.
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RESPONSE:
Over stimulated by imagery in daily life, 'Embodied Intersection' deprives the eyes and inundates the other senses to create an anxious linear journey for users.
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Focusing on the manipulation of the site's condition, this installation is a tactile journey that that boundaries and thresholds. the short time that as user is in the experiencing space coincides with the realisation/actualisation of self and body in time and space.
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This process of discovery and sensorial captivation pushes users through a tense 'invisible forest' of transparent rubber flutes, distorting the path ahead and the world outside.
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The rubber flutes act as an anti-visual stimulus that funnel the site's noise and sound in irregular patterns, highlighting the ephemeral and transient nature of the installations inspiration, the entrance to the goodwill bridge.
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Touched and pushed the flutes react and move with the user to create collision like encounters, inciting restless and tense behaviours. Within the spaces, the sense reactions are short, intensified and distorted. confronting the physical body and ones tangible self in unexpected ways.
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