The Hidden Sensory Layers of Copenhagen
A guided sensory journey developed and facilitated by Pauline. Stillness, material contact, and shared movement invited participants to encounter the landscape through listening, movement, and touch.
The method
Hedone’s method brings together sensory ethnography, artistic research, and place-responsive experience design. It is grounded in an understanding of how culture shapes perception.
The method works with the relationship between time, place, attention, and the body, inviting participants to experience a place beyond their familiar habits.
Research attends to bodily responses, the qualities and rhythms of landscapes, and the perspectives of people who live and work there. Relevant local voices and cultural knowledge inform both what is explored and how.
These encounters become carefully composed sensory sequences. Pacing, movement, sound, materials, and ritual structures invite participants to listen, touch, move, and pause—discovering different relationships with themselves, their surroundings, and each other.
Selected work
Hedone’s hospitality experiences build on independently developed works in live facilitation and interactive audio.
Resilience Ritual Lab
A 90-minute experience composed and facilitated by Pauline, exploring support, resistance, and shared movement through bodily encounters with concrete, metal, stone, and vegetation.
Hedone — interactive audio
Voice, sound, and invitations to act bring the listener’s body and surroundings into the experience.
The Hedone podcast received the “Årets Eksperiment” award from Center for Podcasting in 2023.
View on SpotifyWhat we look for
For Hedone, success lies in the quality of connection an experience invites—with oneself, with others, and with a place.
Through participant reflections and conversations with hosts, we explore what stays with participants afterwards and how the experience contributes to the people and places involved.
Meet the founder
Pauline Kloster Hildan founded Hedone and developed its method through her artistic practice and master’s research in Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University.
She brings experience in journalism, audio production, performance, and facilitation to the research, composition, and delivery of each experience.
Her background includes hosting and journalism in Danish radio, alongside work as a performer and facilitator within the artistic practice of Sisters Hope, the award-winning Danish performance group.
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Let your guests feel the character of your place
Where in your guest journey could your place become more deeply felt?
An introductory conversation explores how its materials, stories, and surroundings could shape a sensory experience for your guests.
Or Email us at : pauline_hildan@hotmail.com