Our land acknowledgement project: “Living Lands ”

Visit our online bookstore
Make a gift

Sign up to our newsletter

Follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, and  YouTube

Read our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions

Fr
The rest of your senses
(+)
(-)
Journeys and translation
What the future looked like
The planet is the client
Technology sometimes falls short
What you can do with the city
Let us assure you
Forces of Friction
Acts of Looking
Keep Safe
Figuring Territory
Of Migration
A Social Reset
With and Within
Will Happiness Find Us?
What about the provinces?
A history of references
Into the material world
Take care
Nature reorganized
Ideas of living
The Other Architect
Origins of the digital
The rest of your senses

We seek to challenge the dominance of vision. We want to smell cities, lick asphalt, construct buildings from snow and ice. We seek to better understand the subtle, sensorial qualities of the built environment. We are studying the transformation of the built environment through climatic control, the bodily experience of sound and ways to navigate using atmospheric conditions. Clearly, our senses shape every aspect of our interactions with our environment. How might a new state of sensorial attention reshape spaces?

Relative Humidity, Temperature, Light Intensity
None
Controlling Comfort
MVRDV, architectural firm. Digital rendering, Pig City, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2000-2001
Livestock at the Ritz-Carlton
Toward a Sensorial Urbanism
Wayfinding by Snow, Wind, and Stars
None
The Sensory Interior
None
Noise Versus Noise
None
Sounding Towers
This Pop Attitude
Article 6 of 9

The Sensory Interior

Presentation by David Howes

Anthropologist David Howes analyses of a series of interiors he has encountered in the course of his field and archival research. Through a sensory studies approach, Howes illustrates how culture and sex modulate sensory perception in a wide range of contexts, from a men’s house in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to the exclusively feminine interior of A la Ronde in Exmouth, and from the dining room of a traditional Japanese house in Kamakura to the living room of a suburban bungalow in Levittown, USA.

Pause
00:00:00
00:00:00

We invited David Howes to present this lecture in conjunction with our 2014 exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed.

1
1

Search

You can search for everything here—our exhibitions, events, collection, articles, and bookstore. If you have any questions, please email us at publications@cca.qc.ca.

No results
/
Slideshow Thumbnails
1
1

Sign up to get news from us

Email address
First name
Last name
  • Newsletter (weekly)*
  • Media invitations (every so often)
  • English
  • French
By signing up you agree to receive our newsletter and communications about CCA activities. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information, consult our privacy policy or contact us.

Thank you for signing up. You'll begin to receive emails from us shortly.

We’re not able to update your preferences at the moment. Please try again later.

You’ve already subscribed with this email address. If you’d like to subscribe with another, please try again.

This email was permanently deleted from our database. If you’d like to resubscribe with this email, please contact us

Please complete the form below to buy:
[Title of the book, authors]
ISBN: [ISBN of the book]
Price [Price of book]

First name
Last name
Address (line 1)
Address (line 2) (optional)
Postal code
City
Country
Province/state
Email address
Phone (day) (optional)
Notes
  • In-store pickup
  • Delivery by post

Thank you for placing an order. We will contact you shortly.

We’re not able to process your request at the moment. Please try again later.

Folder ()
Close
Request these items
Email this list to yourself (or someone else)

Your folder is empty.

Email:
Subject:
Notes:
Back to list
Send
Please complete this form to make a request for consultation. A copy of this list will also be forwarded to you.

Your contact information
First name:
Last name:
Email:
Phone number:
Notes (optional):
We will contact you to set up an appointment. Please keep in mind that your consultation date will be based on the type of material you wish to study. To prepare your visit, we'll need:
  • — At least 2 weeks for primary sources (prints and drawings, photographs, archival documents, etc.)
  • — At least 48 hours for secondary sources (books, periodicals, vertical files, etc.)
Back to list
Submit
Collection access and use FAQ
Contact collection reference
...