OLIN Labs Presents at Uncommon Senses III

Hosted by Concordia University’s Centre for Sensory Studies, Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses was an international, interdisciplinary conference featuring presentations by scholars from across the social sciences, humanities and fine arts interested in exploring the future of the senses in a rapidly-changing world.

OLIN Labs member Dani Toronyi presented Hidden geographies: Designing for neurodivergent ways of hearing and sensing.

Neurodivergent (ND) people may share similar neurological dysfunction in regulating perception and integration of complex sounds. The acoustic environment is a dominant sensory component of cities, and may significantly impact ND people’s lived experience and health outcomes.

In her presentation, Dani discussed the critical need for landscape architects and urban designers to accommodate the sensory needs of ND people. She spoke about participatory research and embodied ethnographic evaluations of the ND sensory experience of urban space, including discussion of Lawrence and Anna Halprin's work. She also explored how these topics might inform future research creation practices.

Please click here to learn more about Dani’s work!