Course Summary

December 15, 2023

Overall this course taught me that I must prioritize using my other senses, especially at the beginning of the design process. Working through the challenges of articulating different senses such as smell, taste, and sound in drawing was an extremely useful practice to cultivating my own method of site analysis as part of an architecture practice. I think by closing my eyes at the beginning of the process, I give space for my other senses to take over. In some way, I think this visual vacancy should be conveyed in whatever is drawn, to give viewers a chance to imagine or enter a drawing through their own senses beyond sight.

December 11, 2023December 11, 2023

Course summary – José Torres

As I mentioned during the final presentation, I see this class as more than just career training; it serves as a guide to a more meaningful and richer interaction with the world and the experiences around us. Throughout the entire course, by defamiliarizing the everyday, I felt like a child discovering joy and beauty in the smallest of things. My senses took the lead, and I allowed myself to rediscover the environment through different lenses.

For this reason, my collage reflects the sensation of playfulness that I carried with me into each activity. This playful mindset, thanks to Daniel, has proven invaluable in refreshing my perspective on design and architecture.

I would like to close by sharing a quote by Carl Jung that touches upon this idea:

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”

December 1, 2023December 1, 2023

Course Summary – Adam Wojtowicz

For me, this course dissolved the boundaries of the senses. Here I map the relationships revealed between the senses. The Bouba Kiki effect that gives form to sound, or how music invokes colour. How the directionality and temperature and intensity of light can invoke textures from a distance. That taste, the mother of all senses, the first of our experiences in this world blends, in fact, all five together. And then, the outlier and most sensitive of the senses (only 5 molecules to trigger a nerve): Smell. I drew smell as a poche line that runs through all five as it bridges the senses through memory.

This gave rise to an image in reaction to DaVinci’s rationalist icon of western civilization, the Vitruvian man.

I instead, drew the Sensorial Vitruvian. Not just thinking, but feeling. Not just measuring, but sensing. Not just living, but being.

December 1, 2023

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December 1, 2023December 2, 2023

Course Summary – Alena Bergeron

My poster depicts a sketched camera meant to represent my brain and reliance on the visual sense. The camera is sketched as to reflect my earlier work in this course and the four images entering the camera represent in order smell, touch, taste, and sound. I chose to depict a vintage camera as they take longer to process an image just as this class has taught me to stop and take a moment to process my environment. Lastly, I chose to represent the senses based off of images that for me evoked either smell, touch, taste, or sound. Learning to represent a sensorial experience and my feelings has been a key learning curve in this course and I wish to continue exploring modes of representation.

December 1, 2023