Spatializing Sensory Memory Through Sketching and Making

Classic architectural writings of senses and place, such as Gaston Barchelard’s The Poetics of Space, Yifu Tuan’s Experience and Appreciation, and Juhani Pallasma’s The Geometry of Feeling, stimulate the sensorial imaginations and memories through detailed descriptions of space and how the body reacts to space emotionally, physiologically and physically. Making memorable places is also creating memorable marks and atmospheres that strongly connected to the senses. Places become meaningful when we associate with our lived experiences through the senses. Sensory memories of everyday life experiences are gained through implicit and unconscious learning, and can also be expressed implicitly and unconsciously rather than explicitly and consciously. These memories are often emotional, however, not always accurate. Feelings from memories are perhaps more meaningful than recalled accuracies and details of the space or objects in the space.