Laura Phase 3
I have decided to look closely at just one sense. Touch. I was originally looking at smell and touch but I have since decided it is better to one in detail then many from just the surface. I was interested in both smell and touch as the both can be very involuntary senses to experience.
A smell floats a long in the air and it is only once you have smelt it that you can block you nose and even then some smells are all consuming and impossible to get away from. Smell is also the main sense that brings back involuntary memories. Once you smell something you generally know instantly what it is, whether it is a nice smell a bad smell and what exactly the smell is (eg. Coffee).
Touch is also to an extent involuntary. You can choose more easily to not to touch a hot burning fire than to not smell it but at the same time you can never be completely not touching anything. Even if you are standing alone not touching anything in particular you feet still have to touch the floor.
Within touch I would like to particularly look at texture and the appropriateness of different textures to different products, warmth and coolness in association to comfort, and personal space (why do we let products touch us but not people?).
A smell floats a long in the air and it is only once you have smelt it that you can block you nose and even then some smells are all consuming and impossible to get away from. Smell is also the main sense that brings back involuntary memories. Once you smell something you generally know instantly what it is, whether it is a nice smell a bad smell and what exactly the smell is (eg. Coffee).
Touch is also to an extent involuntary. You can choose more easily to not to touch a hot burning fire than to not smell it but at the same time you can never be completely not touching anything. Even if you are standing alone not touching anything in particular you feet still have to touch the floor.
Within touch I would like to particularly look at texture and the appropriateness of different textures to different products, warmth and coolness in association to comfort, and personal space (why do we let products touch us but not people?).
posted by Malte Wagenfeld at 6:15 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Laura
To concentrate on only touch is an interesting idea. Touch more then the other senses is the broadest and also the most personal, yes we can look at someone, we can smell and see someone, but it is totally different to touch someone - you are entering someone's personal territory.
Touch also spans quite a few sensations; pressure and temperature are the obvious ones, but how would you describe the feeling of a cool or warm breeze, here we have several coming together.
I would like you to expand on what you have written. You also still need to produce some form of manifesto; see the top of this blog page.
I will post a mark once this is done.
Malte
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