A research oriented to identify a new interpretation of the book:
sensorial and synaestethic.
What’s synaesthesia and how is it related to the book?
Analazing its story from the manuscript to Gutenberg, moving on to the evolution of the book as an object.
From being just a simple box of knowledge for an elite, thanks to the alphabetization, the book evolves into a mean of cognitive spreader.
The book can be conceived as a synaesthetic object has it contains words that are read, thought and processed by our brain and then visualized, and its different translations in space of the blank page.
A book has several sensorial involments.
The most affected sense is the sight and touch which is certainly the most important for understanding and interaction.
The smell of new books and old ones, printed paper and its heat, thickness, texture, the noise of turning pages, before reading the contents of a book, we are accidentally attracted by the composition of the container.