“What if we designed for all senses? Suppose for a moment, that sound, touch, and odor were treated as the equals of sight, and that emotion was as important as cognition?” (Malnar & Vodvarka).
Sight has become the primary sense with which we experience...
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“What if we designed for all senses? Suppose for a moment, that sound, touch, and odor were treated as the equals of sight, and that emotion was as important as cognition?” (Malnar & Vodvarka).
Sight has become the primary sense with which we experience our world, to the detriment
of stimulation of the four other senses (Pallasmaa, 2005).
Limited sensory stimuli in our
daily lives deprive us of the complete experiential awareness available to us.
By engaging
all five senses, all persons, but particularly individuals with vision and hearing impairments
can increase their knowledge of self and place.
Adolescents with impaired sight and
hearing senses are apt to place stronger emphasis on those senses with which they do
receive information.
Holbrook (1996) refers to “Inter-sensory Coordination” as the sharing
of information from one sense to another which ultimately helps understanding and mapping
of place.
Garden environments can be especially stimulating through the tactility of t
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