The sensome is a way of getting the future into our bones, an immersive world in miniature. Later it became the Socratus name for our multispecies studio.
How the word moved
In Oct 2020 I named it as a Socratus tool for collective wisdom. In Oct 2021, in the Mauhaus Project, I defined it properly, starting from a plan to run Cambridge's Central Square as if it were 2030 - a plan that failed. By Aug 2024 it was the multispecies studio, what we call the sensome.
In my words
"Let’s call that visceral experience of the future “the sensome,” i.e.,a way of getting the future into our bones."
from M1: The Mauhaus Project, 19 Oct 2021
Related
- Related Mauhaus - I defined it in the Mauhaus Project.
- Related Knowledge Studio - the sensome is the multispecies studio.
- Related Worldmaking - the sensome is a kind of worldmaking.
Still open
It started as an immersive event and ended up a studio format. I haven't decided whether that's one meaning or two.