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5enses Magazine
We are excited to share with you the magazine we made as a final product for our Premium project. Marres really enjoyed our work and now they are thinking to print it and use it for their future activities! We hope to have set the basis for something that will keep growing, potentially also through the help of the future premium teams. Enjoy!
As all good things come to an end, so it’s our amazing journey with PREMIUM.
For Marres House of Contemporary Culture we decided that to create only a symbolic vocabulary to express our sensorial experiences would have been too simplistic considering what we have learned along the process.
This is how the idea of a magazine came up.
Here you can find a “taste” of the more than 50 pages our magazine consists of.
To find out more, stay tuned :)
DRAWING THE SENSES WORKSHOP
What: Experimental activity When: Friday the 3rd of May 2019 Where: Marres House of Contemporary Culture Who:The targeted group were six Belgian high school students named Myrthe, Isabel, Laurence, Veron, Nora, Demi and a member of Marres, Ilse Why: The aim of the activity was to test the effectiveness of part of our “symbolic language” and see how students would symbolically represent their own sensorial experience.
The participants were subjected to three different sensorial experiences:
Touch the tip of Giulia’s hair
Touch a rough brick wall
Drink a glass of water
After completing each action, the participants were asked to draw twice. One drawing would be a symbol to represent the experienced sensorial sensation. The second drawing would express their emotional experience during the activity. Once ended, we showed each participant the three symbols we created to represent the sensorial sensations of the three different actions and to try to guess which symbol related to which sensation without any suggestion from us. Finally, we showed the participants a symbol we drew representing the way we felt at the beginning of our project when we started picturing emotions and sensations in a symbolic way, and we asked them to guess what that symbol represented.
FINDINGS
The drawings of the participants were generally quite different from one another, but it was really interesting to see how some of them were somehow similar to our symbolic language. It was also interesting to notice how some participants needed a “connector” to be able to represent the sensorial experience. For instance, to represent the sensation felt in touching Giulia’s hair, one participant drew an animal and then made a circle around its tale, while another one drew a ball of yarn. To represent the sensation of touching a rough brick wall, one participant actually drew the brick wall and then the single brick. This explains how difficult it can be to distinguish a sensation with the material elements related to that sensation. To represent the way they felt in participating to the activity, apart from one participants, all the participants used an emoticon. This says a lot about how people (especially among teenagers) interiorized the symbolic language of the emoticons to represent their feelings. In general the participants felt happy, relaxed, focused and mainly represented it with a happy smiling face.One participant felt normal and drew an interesting symbol to represent that. When it was our turn to show the participants our symbols (the ones you can see here in pink) and try to guess which sensorial experience they represented, two out of seven were able to guess all the three symbols. The participants who were in general more able to draw in a symbolic way, were also the ones who had less difficulties in guessing our symbols. But in general we can say that the activity was effective as four were able to guess the symbol related to experience number 3 and five the one related to experience number 2. In general the confusion was among experience 1 and 3, whose symbols were similar.
CONCLUSION
When we finally showed the participants the symbols that represented the way we felt at the beginning of our project, they all immediately guessed it: confused. We can say that in general the activity was really interesting and served our purpose. We defined the common difficulties that exist with detaching a sensorial experience to the material element related to it and that it is even more challenging to invent a symbolical for that isolated sensorial experience. Moreover we have been able to witness how some symbols have become part of the collective imagination and are today used on a daily bases.
Sculpting the senses
The team has been really interested in how external factors affect the internal senses/emotions. I realized that there was also some exploring worth doing in how the internal senses/emotions can affect the external. I decided to roll some clay into a sphere and express different emotions. This created some concrete shapes out of abstract sense/emotion. Allows someone other than myself to see and thus maybe understand what kind of sense/emotion I could be feeling, what kind of abstract shapes my sense/emotion is taking internally. It is a potential way of concretely communicated the abstractly inexplicable.
Each sculpture represents an emotion or a sensation. Guess which represents which ;) - Sensuality / Sexuality / Passion / Mistery
- Harmony / Joy / Relaxation
- Sadness / Carlessness / Boredom
There are less then two months to the end of our #premium journey!
Last Tuesday we met our client at Marres to define our final proposal. These spring days are giving us such a lovely weather and the garden in Marres is beautifully shining. It’s worth a refreshing drink :)
Quote of the day: “If you don’t know too much about the world, this is the way you begin, going back to yourself”.
These meeting are always of great inspiration!
With many ideas in mind, we go back to work. Stay tuned :)
What happen when team #5enses decide to try a variety of the Indian cuisine?
The result is a full experience into the #senses exploration!
Federica felt an overwhelming, positive sensation of warmth brought by the combination between the richness of the flavors, the good company and the drinks. She loved the spices and strong flavors of the meat and sauces opposed to the mild taste of the rice, this contrast created a wonderful balanced combination.
Aishwarya felt the experience as a piece of home for her taste buds. If she should describe the sensory experience with one word, she would choose mild.
Utkarsh experienced a mixture of a lot of flavors which somehow reminded him of home.
Giulia felt that all her senses were involved. Looking at how the dishes were carefully presented, with a mixture of colors and consistencies. Listening to her colleagues’ stories and sharing laughs made the experience more intense and pleasant. Smelling that mix of fragrances increased the intensity of the taste experience. Touching the soft typical Indian bread which perfectly matched with the sauces and enhance their flavors. Then the taste itself, delicious.
Team #5enses goes to Museum Night in Maastricht...!
At Marres with the exhibition The Floor is Lava
“You stare at your coffee hoping it gives you perspective and sanity and the ability to make sense of it all and that’s a lot to ask of your coffee.”
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
We had used the symbol of coffee to explain our project during the midterm presentation. It's all this and so much more to us - tea, coffee or whichever beverage of your choice- doesn't matter where you are, or which language you speak one look at the symbol on the shop or menu card, will point you in the right direction! ☕🍵🍺
We are onto the next step in our project, distilling senses and symbols. Adding some structure to the abstract (;
Mid-Term Presentation
What a long but exciting and fun night!
We got a chance to share our project and progress with the other teams and enjoyed listening to what the other teams have been doing. Congratulations to all the other teams and good luck for the upcoming busy weeks ;)
Now we can go back to experimenting with senses and symbols!
Team 5enses <3
Have you noticed how symbols have been integrated into our everyday life? And certain symbols mean the same in all languages, the universality is such that we interpret them seamlessly.
We must learn to heed our senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feeling through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk. M. Scott
Utkarsh
Heyo! I’m Utkarsh. I come from India. I am a huge people-person and also a Telecommunications Engineer, but a few years ago a serendipitous event inspired me to get into the Business side of the Corporate World. After that, I have gained experience working and studying in China, France, and The Netherlands and I love it. I am also focused on putting my passions and skills to good use by organizing netwroking events with the motto Connecting Humans and organizing workshops for skills managment. While I am not doing this, I indulge in my love for seein new places and capturing the moments through my camera. I am very much a kid at heart and love to cook, whenever I can. I love meeting new poeple and learning new things, and now I am doing this through the Premium Project.
We’ve been drawing inspiration from the amazing work from Ferran Adrià. He is a Catalan chef who, as the creative force behind the restaurant El Bulli (closed in 2011), pioneered the influential culinary trend known as molecular gastronomy, which uses precise scientific techniques to create inventive and evocative high-end cuisine. In the early 21st century many considered him the best chef in the world. Notes on Creativity focuses on Adrià’s consistent and radical approach to the sense of taste. It shows the important relation in his practice between sensory perception and the creative process. Particularly interesting for our team is the series of pictograms developed by Marta Méndez Blaya in 2001 for elBulli’s General Catalogue. You can see come of these graphic icons for products used in the restaurant in the picture above.
A mind map about cringing. What are all the situations you associate with cringe? Here’s some!
Visual sensorial maps
Picture 1&2 / Saudi Arabia
I outlined the shapes with a pen and went over it with water colours. The result represented the desert landscape I so often saw in Saudi. I learnt to draw those shapes from my family and since Saudi is where I grew up, family lessons have greatly influenced me in my choice of design. I thought the seashell-like shape was a great symbol for the history Saudi has
with the ocean covering its lands and thus all the ocean fossils we would find scavenging through the sand when I was young. I remember returning to Belgium on vacation and telling people about what I had found among the dunes and meeting their surprise. These fossils, shells and shark teeth always felt like a secret that nobody really knew about unless they were there themselves with their hands wrist deep in the hot sand. <
Picture 3 / Alps
I used a scalpel craft knife to cut some undulating lines on a few pages back to back. This created an effect of depth perception and texture that reminds me of the view I experience when snowboarding off-piste in the winter mountains. I kept the paper as it was because it recalls the white monochrome nature of mountains covered in powder on a sweet snow day. The simplicity of this creation represents the perception I have when lost in the mountains and the birth of my zen state of mind surrounded by such a landscape.
Picture 4 / Belgium
I used to live abroad for 22 years. The page is split in three different sections referring to the three different times I used to visit Belgium annually during my time abroad. The colours represent the different seasons of the year I used to swing by. If I had to choose one colour to fog my memory, I remember winter as being blue, Spring as being red and summer as being green. I drew/painted using pen and water colours. I created the piece in two different sessions. The first session I drew and painted and the second session I went over the borders between the sections with paint to make the colour more vivid in those areas.
