WORKSHOP: ALLMÄNNINGEN

Form Design Center

Malmö, Sweden

Spring 2024

Walking with Your Senses - Sensing Malmö

The workshop introduces walking as a form of sensory observation, enabling participants to fully experience their environment. Sight is the dominant sense we are trained to use when perceiving the world around us. But what happens when we attentively employ all of our senses? How does our spatial awareness change?

The workshop provides participants with resources to draw upon their sensory experiences and fully "see" where they are. It began at Form Design with a brief introduction to walking as a means of "seeing" one's environment. Participants were given a script for their walk and two cards. One card was for sensing the walk, providing space to note sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell. The second card provided space for drawing the path taken.