Our ocular-centric tendencies have hindered the way we design. As a culture, we are bombarded with images, which desensitize and alienate us, regarding our surroundings as a series of potential two-dimensional photographs. As designers, we are trapped in an artistic visual game, detached from culture, society, and time, centered on rendering and photo opportunities and immediate visual impact. Renderings are taken from the strange angles of bodiless observers, and with the help of technology, the design process has become a series of two-dimensional manipulations. Designing solely in this visual dimension creates a meaningless retinal journey, explaining the growing popularity of introspective activities such as meditation and yoga. Architecture should strengthen our sense of being, our compassion, and our participation in the world. We must remember we are composers of volume, choreographers of motion, and sculptors of light and shadow. Rather than regarding the buildings we are designing as distant objects on a computer screen, we must remember that buildings are our instruments. We must imagine how they feel in our hands, how they sound, and how they age; we should be able to play them with our eyes closed. Located in subterranean Detroit, The Sensorium utilizes the architectural materials of texture, scale, vibration, light, shadow, and spatial sequencing; translated from the musical notation of The Firebird, by composer Igor Stravinsky, to evoke motion and elicit emotion. Through a holistic synesthetic experience, the visitor sees sound, touches the rhythm of dance, listens to geometry, and walks around music.