Sensory tourism experiences in the city

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Authors: Mireia Murciano, Bentagai Pérez, Ibai Velilla (founders of: Guenyos, design studio experiences and students from 3^rd course)

Sensory tourism programs, are the development of tourist routes across the city of Barcelona, using all the senses except sight. Imagine yourself explaining the holiday trip to your relatives and friends, without showing a picture, how would you do it?

People are not blind; we are predisposed to the visual world around us, to the point where we construct reality through images and to the detriment of the other four senses. So much information wasted!!!

The aim with this project is, firstly, to remove the potential to enrich people’s sensory perception in relation to the environment. That is, anyone can sit on the couch at home and enjoy a wonderful view of the Sagrada Familia, the end of the day, it only takes a photo.

What a difference it would have walked among its pillars and a conscious, feel touch the ground on his feet, smells, sounds, in short, any information that is only possible through our sensory experiences that are not summarized in an image.

On the other hand, the second objective is to go against mass tourism, and scheduled. We propose the concept of “slow tourism”, tourism that takes time to know those details that make it unique to a city, away from the willingness of the guidebooks.

Finally and ultimate goal is to make an integrated effort among blind people, their organizations and the local population. In this project there are no differences between disabled and “normal” and there is much less with tourists, since the latter also come to know the local population.