Since we can't really understand what we can't actually perceive, honing our senses and expanding on them by using technical aids allows us to effectively engage as part of a complex and dynamic environment. Our senses helps the brain make sense of the world, particularly as they work together in unison. When isolated, an individual sensory perception could be misleading. Yet by working together, the senses enable the brain to process and connect information with past experiences.

Course.

During the course, students engaged in exercises and techniques designed to hone and expand their senses. As a result, they could better assess their surroundings and identify solutions to address the challenges we face today.

By taking a hands-on, project-oriented, and interdisciplinary approach, students actively experienced the material and strengthened their perceptual skills. Instead of focusing merely on theory, the course instructors had students actively take part in hands-on exercises that provided real-world insight.

The goal is to acquire skills and abilities to be used directly - or in modified form - as part of future projects and applies to both the acquired skills and the instruments & tools created to improve sensory perception and awareness.

Course instructors: Jeanette Müller, Margit Busch, Martina R. Fröschl, Stefan Resch, Paul Divjak, Sebastijan Gečs, Michael Bachhofer