Multisensory Wellness Object x MMU

This idea began with a simple thought, in this 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.

Wellness doesn’t need to be grand or ornamental. Small tactile pauses, the feel of wood grain, could subtly trigger grounding. The synthesis centered 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. 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

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.