Our event is finally almost here!
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Art is Therapy, Amsterdam
Video Elise found about a fab Art project in Amsterdam.This project is about a new approach to exhibition making and how to make the visits to exhibitions more informative and interesting for general public.
This idea of becoming Art-aware and gaining a new perspective on things is close to what we are researcing, and we just love the video.
Workshops in Sensorium
We found out that they did sensory workshops in that beautiful space too, so here are few of them:
Friday, 16 May 2014
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Seeing / Sounding / Sensing
Seeing / Sounding / Sensing
September 26–27, 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Art, science, and technology are ways of knowing and changing the world. These disciplines frequently draw from each other yet their devoted practitioners rarely have the opportunity for high-level intellectual and cultural exchange.
Seeing / Sounding / Sensing is an intensive two-day event at MIT that invites creative artists to join with philosophers, cognitive neuroscientists, anthropologists, historians, and scholars from a range of disciplines in an open-ended discussion about knowledge production. The goal is to challenge each domain’s conventional certainty about “what is known,” “how we know it,” or “how we can know more,” and to stimulate new issues for possible cross-disciplinary scholarship in the future.
Unexpected smell design
A group of enthusiasts designed a Macbook Pro fragrance, first perfume ever that smells like a freshly opened apple product:
Smell sells: scent marketing
Interesting article on how smell is increasingly used in marketing nowadays.
Some of best examples include artificially fabricated chocolate smell in the M&M shops.
What If We Designed With All 5 Senses?
Another article Ane found in Work Design magazine on multi-sensual design:
Most designers typically create spaces with only two of our five senses; namely, sight and touch. But maybe it’s not out of the question that we could use sound, scent, and taste when tackling a design challenge. Perhaps a cohesive approach with all our senses considered would make our spaces more creative, joyful, and experiential
Sensory Experiences & Designing for the Senses
An article about designing with 5 senses and how some activities engage more senses than others.
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
BE OPEN sound portal @ London Design Week
Can the senses really be isolated? What do we imagine when we listen to it?
Sensory approach in Chinese Budhism
The six senses or modes of perception and their objects are:
sight and colour/form (visual) (rapa-ayatana);
hearing and sound (auditory) (abda-ayatana);
smell and odour (olfactory) (gandha-ayatana);
taste and flavours (gustatory) (rasa-ayatana);
touch and tangible objects (tactile, haptic) (spara-ayatana); and
the mind and ideas (reasoning and cognition) (mano-ayatana).
http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=Six_senses
Inspirations for the workshop
Nice web resource about perceiving art using all our 5 senses. Originally we wanted to start with a similar question and answers session.
Exhibition inspiration: 5 artists, 5 artworks, 5 senses
"Five Senses" at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (February - May 2014) hits every innate sense from taste to touch in an interactive collection of installation art. From Janet Cardiff's enveloping The Forty Part Motet (2001) to Olafur Eliasson's resonating Beauty (1993), this exhibit works to involve visitors every step of the way.
Included in the show is the work of five internationally recognized artists that assistant curator Claire C. Carter says she came across during her visits to such cities as Berlin, New York, Chicago, and London. These works left a lasting impression on her, not because of what she saw but because of what she felt. The idea to connect them through the senses came after she began planning the works for the show.
The most aesthetically inspiring work in "Five Senses" -- Olafur Eliasson's Beauty. An enclosed dark pathway leads visitors around a corner where they are struck with a misty rainbow dancing in the middle of the room. The room, built specifically for the Eliasson work, projects the mist from a stream in the ceiling and a single light cast colors onto the wall of water.
Beauty is one of Eliasson's early works and plays with a simple concept of blending light and water. What is most impactful about this presentation of Beauty, however, is that in the background you can hear the angelic voices of Cardiff's The Forty Part Motet in the next room. As Carter describes, it is a presentation of the work never before imagined by the two artists, but they work together symbiotically to create a resplendent experience.
In the final gallery are two pieces that strike on the sense of smell. Roelof Louw's Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) sits on one side of the room with its sharp citrus scent, and Ernesto Neto's Cai Cai Marrom (2007) hangs from the ceiling emitting the rich spices of turmeric, pepper and cinnamon. Neto's piece is created from stockings filled with spices and resembles a structure that is animal-like and organic.
Louw's orange pyramid is perhaps the most tangible work in "Five Senses" because visitors are encouraged to take oranges directly from the pile and eat them. Carter remarks that this piece mocks a common museum policy that doesn't allow eating in the galleries, but here the artist is welcoming it. The orange is also the symbol of a gift given directly to viewers by the artist. And the oranges are restocked often, so visitors need not worry about the quality of the fruit they are consuming.
Inspirations: Sensorium Exhibition: A Space Devoted to the Five Senses
Céline Merhand and Anaïs Morel are the designers behind the French label, Les M, and they’ve created an environment to explore all five of your senses. The Sensorium exhibition is on display at the contemporary art museum MUDAM in Luxembourg through 8/27, where, like most museums, you normally can’t touch, eat, or speak – only appreciate the art. They’re now giving visitors the opportunity to test their senses in this beautifully designed space.
The materials are screaming to be touched and experienced through a series of events and workshops devoted to the various senses. I don’t know about you, but I think it looks cozy and inviting and full of texture that I just want to touch and explore
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Book: The Eyes of the Skin by Juhani Pallasmaa
Elise found a great book on multisensory architecture! We can surely apply the ideas to our workshop
TED talk - Design for all 5 senses by Jinsop Lee
Great talk about multisensory design by Jinsop Lee
Good design looks great, yes — but why shouldn't it also feel great,
smell great and sound great? Designer Jinsop Lee (a TED Talent Search
winner) shares his theory of 5-sense design, with a handy graph and a
few examples. His hope: to inspire you to notice great multisensory
experiences.
Decision
Decided to make an workshop that would deal with all (7?) senses (as many as possible)
Innovative ways of exhibition making
Visual ideas for all-senses graph
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