The project seeks to capture and investigate the broad potential of human sensorium as analytical and design tool in Chinatown, with a prominent focus on the exploration of smell and visual collective experiences. For this purpose, it utilises social media analysis together with environmental and biometric sensing to offer a qualitative and quantitative representation of the sensorial perception of Chinatown in an attempt to reconstruct its collective memory.

The results propose the design of a virtual reality space that, constructed as an ecology of explicit sensorial experiences, explores the potentials and limits of combinatorial algorithms in a virtual reality environment acting as a blockchain archive of collective perceptions that can be explored as a meta-verse of infinite sensorial memories.

The process involves recording the live visual and smell experiences of visitors in Chinatown and conveying them in an immersive experience accessible online by the general audience. The sensorial data, visualised in the Infinite Chinatown, captures the spatial learning of the visitors in multi-dimensional archive that conveys the collective information at the granular scale.