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Explore.
The work I aim to explore comes from a set of observations about how people connect, regulate, and communicate through sensory experience.
As someone who moves between spending time in nature, music, and design, I’m interested in communication systems that rely less on explanation and more on shared experience. My interest in neurodiverse populations centers on observing where conventional interfaces fall short in supporting different sensory realities.
FRISSON
MUSIC CREATES ALIGNMENT WITHOUT REQUIRING VERBAL AGREEMENT.
When listening to music some people experience FRISSON, French for "shiver," which is an intense, stimulating emotional response often felt as tingling, goosebumps, or chills, linked to dopamine release and brain's reward system. For those who do, music can produce a sense of connection that is immediate, transformative, and a way to experience music on an entirely different level.
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What does it mean to share an experience that is deeply felt by some and imperceptible to others?
Can design create conditions for understanding by simulating or appropriating the experience itself?
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I’m interested in how to explore this safely, acknowledging that intense emotional and sensory states require care, boundaries, and consent.
SLEEP
REST DOES NOT BELONG TO A SINGLE SENSORY CONDITION.
SLEEP explores how sound, silence, and environmental cues shape the body’s relationship to rest. Drawing from my experiences sleeping outdoors, where ambient sound often signals safety, as well as from moments of deep rest found in complete quiet and darkness, this project treats rest as a spectrum of sensory conditions rather than a single ideal state.
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Rather than prioritizing stimulation or total silence, the work will investigate how different forms of presence and absence can support withdrawal, containment, and release. Early explorations move between immersive natural soundscapes and environments defined by darkness and near-silence, asking how enclosure, distance, and continuity influence the perception of safety.
This project contributes to a broader investigation into how designed environments can support regulation and shared understanding without relying on explanation or instruction.
ONGOING INQUIRY
SENSORY ENVIRONMENTS, RHYTHM, AND SHARED PRESENCE SHAPE COMMUNICATION AND REGULATION BEYOND LANGUAGE.
I’m interested in using sound, music, and natural environments as design materials, exploring how creative technology can support regulation, focus, and connection.
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My aim is to explore and create interaction experiments using emerging technologies that ask questions like:​​
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What kinds of shared experiences allow people to feel connected beyond language?
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How might rhythm, repetition, or environmental cues function as a common language?
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Where do existing interfaces demand explanation when presence might be enough?
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What does it mean to design for regulation rather than engagement?
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This work remains intentionally open, allowing understanding to manifest itself through learning about emerging technologies, creation, and experimentation.
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