The Moston Boggart Sensory Loop
The Moston Boggart Sensory Loop is a community-focused landscape proposal designed to reconnect residents with nature through a multi-sensory journey across Moston. Inspired by the local landscape of Boggart Clough and surrounding green corridors, the project creates a continuous walking loop that encourages users to engage with the environment through sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Each intervention along the route has been carefully designed to heighten sensory awareness through planting, materiality, ecological enhancement, and interactive landscape features.
The result of this project was the creation of a 'Sensory Passport' which is an interactive field journal allowing visitors to document their experiences as they travel around the loop. Users can sketch, collect textures, record sounds, press plants, and reflect on emotional responses to different spaces, transforming the journey into a personal and immersive experience. Inspired by ideas of exploration, folklore, and memory, the passport also incorporates local stories, ecological facts, and references to the 'Boggart' as a symbolic guide throughout the trail.
The project aims to demonstrate how sensory landscape architecture can improve wellbeing, encourage outdoor activity, strengthen community identity, and create meaningful connections between people and urban green space. Rather than simply moving through the landscape, users become active participants within it, engaging with Moston through observation, interaction, and discovery.
