Definition
Sensory Design
The holistic practice of engineering an event experience across all five senses — temperature, scent, sound, visual presentation, and tactile elements. Most planners address two or three and forget the rest.
From the episode “IRL Events Are the New Moat”Hear it on the podcast1 episode
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