Multisensory Modalities

Watercolour painting with blue, purple, and white background with green and yellow accent lines.

Visual

Video, photography and mixed media

Abstract watercolour painting with light purple background, dark purple lines and spots.

Sound

Music and soundscapes

Abstract watercolour painting with green and purple background with dark purple circles.

Tactile

Dance, movement and touch

Abstract watercolour painting of white and yellow flowers with light purple background.

Olfactory

Smell

Abstract watercolour painting with pink and purple background with white accent lines.

Gustatory

Taste

What is the Multisensory Studio?

The Multisensory Studio provides a space to create and share stories with the senses. We focus on blending sensory and arts-based methods in research design and knowledge translation.

The Multisensory Studio strives to provide an accessible environment to support the creation, engagement, and enactment of stories by, for, with, and alongside the disability community.

What does multisensory mean?

The concept of multisensory refers to the many ways we experience the world around us. The term multisensory is commonly used to discuss the following senses: visual (sight), auditory (sound), tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), and gustatory (taste).

What is multisensory storytelling?

To us, multisensory storytelling involves both the creating and sharing of life-stories that we can look at, listen to, smell and taste, feel and experience.