Exploring the beautiful wilderness of #vietnam, reflecting while walking and recharging some of my energy in tranquillity and nature.🌿🐾
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Sometimes travel experiences can be positive or negative, planned or serendipitous. Vietnam was a combination of all for me.
From teaching wonderful students, meeting my local friends again, exploring cultural and culinary delights to involuntarily exploring a hospital experience and a weeks’ bed rest after being diagnosed with influenza virus. One minute you think about self-actualising experiences, the next minute you think about basic health and survival. What a spectrum of experiences within a matter of hours. Maslows hierarchy of needs still holds very true today when we think about how we transition through our lives’ experiences.
I believe that all experiences, positive and negative, teach us something. It is just for us to find out whatever that is and embrace it to allow ourselves to learn, grow and be transformed. 💚
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Vietnamese food is simply inspiring - visually, textually and gustatorily. ✨
Today my Vietnamese colleagues taught me some fascinating insights that I believe are worth remembering in our everyday lives.
First, every single bite of Vietnamese food we take is not merely a singular flavour but an amalgamation and explosion of multiple flavours in a single bit. Second, dishes are designed in a way to fit our body’s wellbeing. A variety of ingredients are carefully assembled not just to sate, but to boost, nourish and heal specific parts of our bodies through eating.
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What a wonderful way of thinking about food as a rich sensory experience and as a source of nourishment for the body. How do we practise holism in food experiences and our way of cooking and eating?
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Soundscapes in experience design always let me think of Asia!
I always love the first morning after I have arrived in an Asian country when I wake up, open the windows and see the hazy sky, smell the humid air and hear the fascinatingly rich combination of sounds of a particular place for the first time! ☀️
Like today, when I woke up in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 🇻🇳 hearing the wind, birds and insects, traffic and honking and people talking. Then I know I am back in Asia and I am happy. 😊
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Sounds are most powerful for memory formation. As experience designers we need to think more consciously about how soundscapes can be facilitated and play an important role in the wider sensory mix of experiences.
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