Sensory shopping?!?
Posted by arno -- CrossLab on February 18, 2008
This is the first post in the Lifestyle and Design/Crosslab course in Sensory Shopping that I’m leading at Willem de Kooning in Rotterdam. Shortly, in the coming days, almost 50 students will be joining in the blogroll, as we each investigate the sensory experience of shopping, and how it relates to the power of new media…
- what is the shopping experience?
- how do our senses play a role in this?
- as we migrate to new media platforms, how do these play a role in widening our shopping experience?
- how can we make new media more attractive for sensory experiences?
These are a few of the questions we’re going to be asking. And be sure to come back to see more of the ideas emerge as we create our online catalogue of sensory experiments, observations on shopping, online sharing and eventually some new shopping scenarios.
ideacritik said
sensory experience in the online shopping world… certainly a field being developped by the capitalist avengers of VirtualReality. however, interesting to imagine how sensory experiences can be ‘faked’, or suggested by ‘low-tech’ means through something as simple as a blog for example. after all, books have always had the capacity of evoking the senses through plain text…