Sensing the City: A Sensory Cartography
“感官城市”: 一个感官制图术
Participatory sensory exploration in public spaces
“Sensory City” is a participatory project that invites the public and artists to explore the city through the senses.
Participants complete a series of physical “Five-Sense Task Cards” in everyday spaces such as local markets — from “finding a sound that feels blue” to “discovering something that looks sweet but smells bitter.”
These playful missions encourage participants to move beyond vision-centered perception and rediscover the connection between body and city.
The project was realized in collaboration with the Chinese local food community Co-Fun, where sensory experiments and participatory actions were conducted in the marketplace context.
Through collective recordings, sound, and visual documentation, participants co-created a “Sensory Map” that reveals how embodied perception reshapes our understanding of public space.
“感官城市”: 一个感官制图术
Participatory sensory exploration in public spaces
“Sensory City” is a participatory project that invites the public and artists to explore the city through the senses.
Participants complete a series of physical “Five-Sense Task Cards” in everyday spaces such as local markets — from “finding a sound that feels blue” to “discovering something that looks sweet but smells bitter.”
These playful missions encourage participants to move beyond vision-centered perception and rediscover the connection between body and city.
The project was realized in collaboration with the Chinese local food community Co-Fun, where sensory experiments and participatory actions were conducted in the marketplace context.
Through collective recordings, sound, and visual documentation, participants co-created a “Sensory Map” that reveals how embodied perception reshapes our understanding of public space.
