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Sensing Around
A Collaborative Creative Residency with Finni Chambers
Throughout September, Finni will use multisensory experimentation as a shared creative language, collaborating with local participants to explore our neighbourhood through sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. This exhibition brings together the stories, creations, and interactive elements from these workshops to showcase a collective sensory map of Ayr, exploring place, wellbeing, and belonging.
Come along to celebrate, explore the work, and experience the installation!
About Finni Chambers
Finni Porter Chambers (she/her) works at the intersection of community, wellbeing and design. Through playful, co-designed processes, her practice explores how the senses (sight, touch, sound, smell and taste) can connect people more deeply to place through non-verbal and playful methods.
As founder of Josafinni Studio, Finni explores how spatial design can support communities, mental health, disability, neurodivergence, children and young people through imaginative and participatory approaches.
Finni is currently working with V&A Dundee on a co-design project with adults with learning disabilities, in collaboration with Museum Transformers and the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities. Recent projects include co-designing interiors for SAMH’s The Nook with Anna Campbell-Jones.
Other community-led commissions include work with Sustrans, Renfrewshire Council and DesignHOPES at the University of Strathclyde.
Alongside her practice, Finni sits on the board of Architecture Fringe, advising on accessibility and inclusion. She has also been awarded a residency with the Royal Designers for Industry and was shortlisted for the Scottish Design Awards 2026.
THE WORKSHOPS
Sensory + Intuitive Mark Making - neurodivergent art making
Sun 6th September, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Led by neurodivergent artist, Finni, we will explore the sensory joy of experimental mark making. Allowing yourself to enjoy the moment of each mark, letting sensory input guide your drawing. This workshop includes drawing as grounding techniques and reconnection to our 5 senses.
Finni's lived experience as a neurodivergent artist with anxiety informs her practice and this workshop. Finni has experience designing mental health spaces; The Nook by SAMH.
Using art materials such as charcoal, paints and pens we will make marks on paper. If you have any sensory dislikes, do let us know. We can provide gloves and anything else that may help, or feel free to not join in for the parts that you may not enjoy.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Mapping Sensory Memories
Sun 13th September, 1pm - 3pm
Led by neurodivergent artist, Finni, we will explore the sensory joy of experimental mark making. Allowing yourself to enjoy the moment of each mark, letting sensory input guide your drawing. This workshop includes drawing as grounding techniques and reconnection to our 5 senses.
Finni's lived experience as a neurodivergent artist with anxiety informs her practice and this workshop. Finni has experience designing mental health spaces; The Nook by SAMH.
Using art materials such as charcoal, paints and pens we will make marks on paper. If you have any sensory dislikes, do let us know. We can provide gloves and anything else that may help, or feel free to not join in for the parts that you may not enjoy.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Sensory Play - Early Years
Tues 15th September, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Exploring and playing with our senses, time for free play with lots of sensory seeking moments that may result in fun art works created.
Led by artist Finni who has 6 years of participatory arts workshop experience with young people and children, people with learning disabilities and people with lived experience of mental health.
Materials used in the session will be child safe and may include; foam, clay, water, paint, pencils, sounds, instruments. If your child or you have any sensory dislikes or allergies, do let us know.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Taste as Sensory Information
Tues 22nd September, 6pm - 8pm
This workshop marks a new chapter in artist and participatory designer Josafinni's practice. Her work explores how our five senses can become creative tools for making, connecting and understanding the world around us. Through sensory art making, she encourages people to trust their intuitive and embodied knowledge, recognising that our experiences of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste all shape how we relate to place, memory and one another.
While Josafinni has previously worked with multisensory approaches, this residency offers the first opportunity to place food and taste at the centre of her creative process. Together, participants will explore taste as a form of sensory information—how flavours can spark memories, tell stories, evoke emotion and inspire new ways of making. Through shared conversation, playful experimentation and creative activities, the workshop invites everyone to consider food not only as something we consume, but as a material for connection, creativity and collective storytelling.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Blank Canvas: Finni Chambers Sensing Around
- Opening Exhibition
Fri 25th September, 4pm - 8pm
Throughout September, Finni will use multisensory experimentation as a shared creative language, collaborating with local participants to explore our neighbourhood through sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. This exhibition brings together the stories, creations, and interactive elements from these workshops to showcase a collective sensory map of Ayr, exploring place, wellbeing, and belonging.
Come along to celebrate, explore the work, and experience the installation!
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
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