The objective of the project is to address the problem of sensory overload in our everyday lives. Our senses are able to absorb enough stimuli in order to read our environment and make desicions. Increasing control over energies produces an overstimulation of the senses. Is the solution to hold back or give the body the ability to channel through these stimuli?
An implant, similar to a radio dial, will allow users to tune into whichever channel they desire. The channels are commissioned to designers, who are able to curate the habitats within them. The habitats within a channel becomes an immersive environment, triggering multiple layers of the human sensory system.

These channels are predesigned with the visual stimuli, chemical stimuli (scent/taste), and environmental factors (humidity/pressure/temperature) in order to create this immersive environment allowing for the engagement of the new sensorial abilities. The designers of the channel control the quality of space that is produced ,the service fees and the rate of redesign.

A sensory plasticity would be allowed by the dial, similar to way in which animals can tune specific sensory systems to the environment in order to extract relevant information. A turn of the dial for the user could mean the introduction of a new habitat within the same space.

2013

2013

Nazifa Virani