An exhibition that awakens the senses

Curated by Kenya Hara of the Nippon Design Museum, Tokyo, Haptic throws the spotlight on to products that awaken our senses. Bringing together architects, fashion designers, product designers, artists, graphics and interior designers (including Shigeru Ban, Jasper Morrison, Matthieu Manche and Kenya Hara himself) HAPTIC offers us “fruit skin” packaging, lamps made of human hair, cabbage-mould bowls, a tactile clock, a whole new take on a power extension cable, the “handy roof” pack-a-mac and much more. Haptic runs at The Lighthouse, Scotland’s National Architecture and Design Centre, from 18 June – 29 Sept 2008.

“The ancient term haptic refers narrowly to the sense of touch,” says Kenya Hara, “but I prefer to use it in a broader sense as something that on sight awakens all the senses.” For the exhibition he selected designers from multi-disciplinary fields to respond to the brief of creating an object appealing predominantly to the sense of touch, but that in its visual form would also stimulate the senses of smell and taste.

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