Publications of note

Books

Material and Mind
by Christopher Bardt
(MIT Press, 2019)

Atmosphere Anatomies - On Design, Weather and Sensation
by Silvio Benedito
(Lars Mueller Publishers, 2021)

Elements of Architecture
by Mikkel Bille & Tim Flohr Sorensen
(Routledge, 2019)

Senses of Place
by Steve Feld and Keith H. Basso
(UBC Press, 1996)

Designing With Smell - Practices, Techniques and Challenges
by Victoria Henshaw, Kate McLean, Dominic Medway, Chris Perkins, Gary Warnaby (eds.)
(Routledge, 2017)

This page showcases leading publications in the field of sensory design and the sensory ethnography of space and place - first books and second journal articles.

Horn, or The Counterside of Media
by Henning Schmidgen
(Duke University Press, 2022)

Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically  
by Sara Asu Schroer and Susanne Schmitt
(Routledge, 2020)

Atmospheres and the Experiential World — Theory and Methods
by Shanti Sumartojo and Sarah Pink
(Routledge, 2020)

Sensing Chicago — Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers
by Adam Mack
(University of Illinois Press, 2015)

Mind in Architecture — Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design
by Sarah Robinson and Juhani Pallasmaa (eds.)
(MIT Press, 2017)

A Sensory Education
by Anna Harris
(Routledge, 2020)

The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure — Race, Affect, Environment
by Kelly M. Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto and Susan Zieger (Eds.)
(Northwestern University Press, 2022)

Thermal Delight in Architecture
by Lisa Heschong
(MIT Press, 1979)

Sensory Arts and Design
by Ian Heywood (ed.)
(Routledge, 2017)

H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness — Reflections on the Historicity of "Stuff"
by Ivan Illich
(Dallas Institute of Humanities of Culture, 1986)

The Senses: Design Beyond Vision
by Ellen Lupton and Andrea Lipps
(Cooper Hewitt, 2018)

Sensory Design
by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka
(University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

The Eyes of The Skin — Architecture and the Senses
by Juhani Pallasmaa 
(Wiley, 1996)

Architecture without Architects — A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
by Bernard Rudofsky
(University of New Mexico Press, 1964)

Sense of the City — An Alternative Approach to Urbanism
by Mirko Zardini (ed.)
(Lars Mueller Publishers, 2005)

In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
(Leete Island Books, 1977)

The Experience of Place — A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
by Tony Hiss
(Vintage, 1991)

Multisensory Experiences — Where the senses meet technology
by Carlos Velasco and Marianna Obrist
(Oxford University Press, 2020)

Mood and Atmosphere
by Martina Sauer, Zhoufei Wang, Christiane Wagner
(Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, 11, 11, 2023)

The New Urban Aesthetic - Digital Experiences of Urban Change
by Mónica Degen, Gillian Rose
(Bloomsbury, 2022)

The Atmospheric City
by Mikkel Bille, Siri Schwabe
(Routledge, 2023)

Capitalism and the Senses
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, David Suisman (eds.)
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Experience design
by Nathan Shedroff
(New Riders, 2001)

Sense-IT! Insights into Multisensory Design
by Lois Frankel & the Sense-It Team
(Self-Published under Creative Commons, 2023)

Articles

A touch of luck and a “real taste of Vegas”: a sensory ethnography of the Montreal Casino
by Erin Lynch, David Howes and Martin French
(2020, The Senses and Society, 15, 2)

In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things
by David Howes
(2022, Journal of Material Culture, 27, 3)

Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind
by Charles Spence
(2020, Cognitive Research, 5, 46)

The Hegemony of Vision
by Juhani Pallasmaa
(2021, Tangible Territory, 1, 3)

Green Pleasures
by Constance Classen
(2013, Beyond Environmental Comfort)

Multisensory Product Experience
by Charles Spence
(2008, Product Experience)

The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts
by Constance Classen
(2006, Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture)

Sensorium®: The Splash of Sensory Trademarks
by Charlene Elliott
(2019, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 23, 2)

The effect of audio on the experience in virtual reality: a scoping review
by Isak de Villiers Bosman, Oguz ‘Oz’ Buruk, Kristine Jørgensen & Juho Hamari
(2023, Behaviour & Information Technology)

Multisensory Product Experience
by Charles Spence
(2008, Product Experience)

Emotions, senses, experience and the history of education
by Claudia Soares
(2022, History of Education)

How can scents enhance the impact of guided museum tours? towards an impact approach for olfactory museology
by Caro Verbeek, Inger Leemans & Bernardo Fleming
(2022, The Senses and Society, 17, 3)

A change of space: implications of digital fieldwork in connected homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
by Cristina Paupini, Helene Fiane Teigen & Laurence Habib
(2022, Digital Creativity, 33, 3)

Spatial agency and practising architecture beyond buildings
by Colin Lorne
(2017, Social & Cultural Geography, 18,2)

Nothing About Us Without … Who? Disability Rights Organisations, Representation and Collaborative Governance
by Julia Bahner
(2022, The International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, 2,2)

Consuming Digital Disengagement: The High Cost of Opting Out
by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake
(2022, Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, 104)

BIG: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization
by Nigel Thrift
(2022, Grammars of the Urban Ground)

Making sense and the sense of making
by Nigel Power
(2017, The Senses and Society, 12,2)

Inside the Rise of Emotional Design
by Charu Suri
(2017, Architectural Digest)

Sharing Knowledge, Making Place: Exploring ‘the Social’ in Co/mmunity Living in London
by Gemma John
(2022, Speaking for the Social: A Catalog of Methods)

On The Water
by Charles Spence
(2022, Tangible Territory Journal, 4)