We humans have five material senses from which we connect the observable world to immaterial perceptions.
Sight is light and colour, texture and reflection, form and shape.
Hearing is sound and acoustic properties and deductive analysis of material characteristics.
Touch is texture and tactile qualities, thermal conductivity and emotional connection.
Taste is flavor and lust, culinary experiences and material compositions.
Smell is air, aroma and scent, memory and health.
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All of the senses are instrumental bridges to architecture and design. Material and matter are connecting reality as a proof of concept, as the hypothesis we are able to cope with.
Several manipulations of this reality suggest we are linking parts of a simulation with our senses, otherwise we couldn’t explain the dissemination of global phenomenons and collective panic and unjustified hysteria. Somehow true, but far from the fictional characters of a film, our life in a simulation is based on that framework of material and matter, observations and perceptions as a set of instructions we name as culture.
Culture, specifically global culture, derives from art and architecture as a social phenomenon. Pop culture and the international style are the mediums in which the connected state of our present configuration happened. Lubricated by capitalism, which was itself lubricated by the modern movement, those aspects of our understanding of the world are deeply connected to the irrefutable proof of our senses.
There are more senses to explore.
Immaterial and intangible, deductive and inductive of a revised framework in art and architecture.
Let’s design spaces around non-spaces based on the design of experiences. Hypothetical and yet very concrete connected states of focus and concentration, shared experiences from daylight design and circadian occasions, biophilic integration and natural decontamination, acoustic alphabets and improved sound landscapes…
Let’s improve our health and move to the necessary state of cure and care from the acknowledgement of our academic and professional bodies in the world.
A laboratory for art and architecture from the politics of design.
An ethical review of sensorial proportions.
The exploration of a threshold between material and immaterial.
The activation of the intangible matter into operational tools of material engagement.
A progressive way from improvement.
These are only 5 to start.