Sensum is a projection mapping that presents an organic digital entity born from the invisible rhythms of the city. The title, derived from a Latin word, refers to perception and sensory experience, reflecting the project’s core: a visual organism that, drawing on urban data — air quality, traffic, sound and temperature — builds its own perceptual system.
Data about Nizhny Novgorod, originally existing as signals and measurable indicators, loses its informational function within the work and is transformed into visual form. The façade of the building becomes the body of this sensitive entity, where light patterns and movement unfold as organic processes: growth, branching, fluidity.
The pre-rendered image turns architecture into a living presence, making visible what pulses beneath the surface. In this process, the urban environment is revealed as a system of signs that, losing their utility, pass into the realm of sensory perception.
The work shows how urban signals cease to be read as information and begin to be perceived as a visual environment with which the viewer enters into direct sensory interaction.
