RESEARCH QUESTIONS & OBJECTIVES
METHODOLOGY & PROCESS
INSIGHTS & SYNTHESIS
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPE
REFLECTIONS
This inquiry began with a simple tension — in a fast, digital life, where does ritual live? I turned to India’s sensory and craft traditions to study how material, rhythm, and atmosphere can slow people down and restore balance.
How can a product evoke pause through sensory engagement rather than instruction?
Can traditional cues of texture, scent, and temperature translate into a modern wellness context?
The objective was to create a product that reintroduced ritual into the everyday.
Using behavioural mapping, cultural research, and material exploration, I documented how people interact with daily objects — mugs, lamps, diffusers — often without awareness. Iterative prototyping in clay, wood, and textile followed, guided by sensory feedback from users.
Wellness doesn’t need to be grand or ornamental. Small tactile pauses — the feel of wood grain, the coolness of clay — could subtly trigger grounding. The synthesis centred on designing an object that feels familiar yet demands presence.
The final prototype became a modular sensory artefact, part diffuser, part sculpture by using natural texture in muted tones. Every cut was intentional, inviting touch, scent, and breath. The result was a quiet tool for contemporary mindfulness.
This project deepened my understanding of emotional design. I realised how sensory details can shift behaviour more powerfully than technology.
Designing “Sensory Rituals” reminded me that the smallest interventions often create the deepest calm.
RESEARCH CONTEXT
Subject : MA Product Design - Final Synthesis
June 2025 - Septemeber 2025
Type : Wellbeing Objects
Complete Case Study
niveditta
umasankar
With the help of Ai, I explored how the same form can be replicated in different materials across the world to suit the visual language from the data collected from their rituals
middle eastern
scandinavian
indian
japanese
Academic Advisor : Jon Spurce