sensory garden

Touch-and-smell park

A sensory garden is a garden designed to stimulate all five senses—sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste—through deliberate plant selection and landscape features.

Common elements include fragrant herbs, textured foliage, wind chimes, water features, and edible plants.

Sensory gardens are often created for therapeutic purposes, particularly for children, elderly people, or those with disabilities: The school built a sensory garden for students with autism.

Opposites
experiential modality

sensory gardenvirtual reality

Computer-created interactive environment

video game · screen time · visual display · virtual world · digital simulation

nature vs. artificiality

sensory gardenconcrete jungle

Dense cityscape, few parks

industrial zone · parking lot · server room · factory floor · shopping mall

accessibility and inclusion

sensory gardenisolation tank

Enclosed pod blocking stimuli

hostile architecture · solitary confinement · dark room · soundproof booth

Family

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G