Chris Miele described the ways in which sensory perception informed his work on the London View Management Framework and the methods his consultancy uses to assess the effects on new developments on the perception of places.
Kathrine McLean (artist, Royal College of Art): “Invisible, Erratic, Ephemeral: Lives of Urban Smells” (video)
Raymond Lucas (School of Architecture, Manchester University) “Sensory Notations” (video)
Maria Herrera (project officer, City of London) “Designing for the senses in the public realm” (video)
Alex Rhys-Taylor (Goldsmith College) “Fried Chicken and Flat Whites: Olfactory Agents of Demographic Change” (video)
Alex Rhys-Taylor presented his work on the ways in which multisensory ambiences play into the socio-economic stratification of areas. Focusing on Whitechapel Road he contrasted the ways in which the sensory experiences of fried chicken shops and coffee shops cater for different social groups and the tensions that emerge around whose aesthetic codes are allowed to prevail in public spaces.
Caroline Pembroke and Mahbubul Anam (Whitechapel Vision Delivery Team, Tower Hamlets Council) “Whitechapel High Street Regeneration” (video)
El Pais article by Judit Carrera
Monica Degen presents a keynote at Streetlife: the shifting sociologies of the street symposium, 15th of September
The senses are our first access point in experiencing the street. Whether we are directly engaging with urban life in situ or mapping it via a digital means in an architectural studio, we feel the urban landscape through our bodies, sensorially. In this talk I suggest that developing a sensory dimension, or sensitivity, to researching […]