Sensus Shoreditch

Students from Newham use their senses to navigate Shoreditch with artist Gayle Chong Kwan

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A lemon slice and cake on a white cloth on floor in a classroom

Photo: Jan Omerod

Year 9 students from Newham worked with artist Gayle Chong Kwan to produce Sensus Shoreditch, part of Iniva's Mapping Beyond series of exhibitions at Rivington Place.

The students and Gayle Chong Kwan began by experimenting with smell, sharing their experiences and memories of food. This lead to discussions of other senses and eventually to experimenting with sound as an art form. Their sensory explorations began in the Rivington Place building itself and then moved out into the surrounding streets of Shoreditch.

The result is Sensus Shoreditch, an audio and sensorial guided walk from Rivington Place into its surrounding community. 

This project is a continuation of Chong Kwan's ongoing project Sensus, a series of participatory, mapping projects that address how we can interact and map our environment through our senses.

Sensus Shoreditch is part of Creative Mapping, a three-year learning initiative involving schools and colleges in East London.

Sensus Shoreditch


A carton of cranberry juice, a box of Farley's rusks, a tub of rice pudding and a tub of parmesan cheese on a white sheet Two samosas and a spring roll on a white sheet. A student's hand with a pencil points at a samosa. A white sheet on the floor covered with lots of different packets of crisps, sweets, fruit and cakes A large group of young people sit around the white sheet on the floor with artist Gayle Chong Kwan. They are eating different types of food such as crisps, cake and fruit A student sits on the floor, blindfolded and outlining herself in white clay on the floor Four young women walk down a street A student stands by a lamp-post looking at a parcel tag with a note that forms part of the Sensus Shoreditch walk. Black post on side of street with white parcel tag that reads 'comedy cafe - haha!' Two young women read a white tag stuck to a red brick wall in a street


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