EXPERIENCES

The sense of New York is a workshop series that aims to explore and encourage a multi-sensorial interaction with our urban environment. We will explore how we can create a richer interaction with our cities by utilizing and and experiencing it with our five senses of touch, taste, smell, sound and sight. In the workshop we come up with urban interventions that address specific wants and needs by creating new sensory interactions with the metropolitan fabric of New York City.

Using our five senses and the Rocky Mountains as the backdrop, we will create a collective representation of how we sense our great city of Denver. From Larimer Square’s sun-washed streets to the snow-packed peaks in the distance, to the morning aroma of LoDo’s Little Owl Coffee, please arrive to this session with your favorite sight, feel, sound, smell, or taste of Denver. We will then explore how we create richer interactions within our locale by experiencing it with the five human senses of touch, taste, smell, sound and sight. In the workshop, we’ll use storytelling and sharing as inspiration for developing even more inspired sensory interactions with the metropolitan fabric of our cities. By sharing personal sensory experiences of your own — something that has recently inspired you or represents a memorable time for you —you will collectively create, emphasize and translate this personal experience into a new, sensual map of Denver.

This map was created especially for the relaunch of the new International Design Conference for IDSA in 2018.