Making Sense of the City: Representing the Multi-Modality of Urban Space

This project emerged from a previous multidisciplinary Designing for the 21st Century project – Design Imaging.1 The original project explored ways in which the full range of our senses could be exploited to assist with the design process. Discussions on multisensory and multimodal design led to a number of avenues being identified for further research. One in particular, that of representing urban space in a multisensory manner, was the subject of a successful second-round grant application from the Departments of Architecture and Design, Manufacture, and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde.