The library thus moves away from being only a place for consultation and silence and becomes a space that supports, regulates and prepares people to engage with knowledge at their own pace and according to their needs. In addition, the space is open to the community: medical-social centres, professionals and families can use it for sensory stimulation and workshops, strengthening the library’s role as a shared public resource.

How does the library environment affect how people access culture?

The environment plays a key role in how people engage with culture. Imagine a space defined by reading in strict silence, tension and a cold atmosphere—conditions that may support concentration for some, but make it harder for others to relax, focus or feel welcome. This raises an important question: how can libraries support different ways of engaging with culture without losing their identity?

Integrating a multisensory room into a library does not mean changing its identity, but expanding it: incorporating experiences that prepare, accompany and enrich the relationship with cultural content.

Not everyone accesses knowledge through traditional reading, nor with the same levels of attention or sensory tolerance. Let us think, for example, of a person with autism. For them, a conventional library can be challenging: difficulty concentrating, filtering environmental stimuli and sustaining attention over time. A multisensory space within the library offers a controlled, predictable and adaptable environment where the person can self-regulate, feel safe and prepare to access other cultural activities within the same centre.

What elements are included in the multisensory space at Le Bélieu?

The multisensory space at Le Bélieu integrates Qinera’s SHX technology. This system allows all the elements in the room— vibroacoustic stimulation, projections, lighting, sound and other sensory effects—to be synchronised at the same time, creating immersive sensory scenes that can recreate real environments such as a forest, the ocean or other settings. These scenarios can be adapted to different moments, activities and individual needs.

One of the key values of this technology lies in how people can interact with the space. Different control systems—such as Button 1, Button 6 and interactive dice—enable users to engage with the environment according to their own mode of access. Through these controllers, users can change the colour or intensity of the bubble tube and fiber optics, launch sensory scenes, learn through play, or create simple games using other sensory elements such as ultraviolet light.

This capacity for interaction gives users a sense of agency and control over the space, turning them from passive observers into active participants. It also opens up new cultural possibilities: storytelling through projections, playful learning experiences, and moments of calm and exploration that respond to the people using the room.

Benefits of integrating multisensory stimulation in a library

1. A different and immersive way of learning
In a multisensory room, learning happens through experiences in which users actively interact with the environment—its colours, sounds, projections and sensory elements. This stimulates curiosity, exploration and participation, allowing people to learn in ways that go beyond traditional reading or listening.

2. Preparing people to read, learn and participate
By reducing sensory overload and creating a calmer atmosphere, multisensory environments help people focus, pay attention and engage more easily with reading and learning activities.

3. Activation when engagement and energy are needed
Beyond calm, multisensory spaces can also activate the senses when more energy is needed. Light, sound, movement and interaction help spark motivation and engagement, supporting learning and participation in a more dynamic way.

4. Storytelling through audiovisual contents
The multisensory space transforms storytelling into an immersive and interactive activity. Stories are told through projections, and as the narrative unfolds, the colours, sounds, vibrations and different elements of the room change in sync with what is happening. Using simple controllers, users can interact directly with the story to move it forward, allowing children to engage actively with the space and strengthening comprehension, imagination and emotional connection.

5. Designed for different users and needs
The multisensory room is designed to adapt to different users, ages and situations. Qinera’s SHX technology includes a library of content created by therapists and professionals and allows new content to be added, making it possible to tailor each experience to specific needs.

• For babies and young children, the space offers a safe and engaging environment for sensory exploration and early development. Through light, sound and simple interactions, children can explore cause-and-effect, build sensory awareness, awaken curiosity and begin to connect with stories and learning in a natural, playful way.
• For people with autism or cognitive disabilities, the multisensory room provides a predictable, adaptable and controllable environment that feels safe and not overwhelming. 
• For teenagers, university students and adults, the space can also function as a place for regulation, stress relief and group activities. It offers a supportive environment to disconnect, lower stress levels or take part in collaborative experiences.
• For families it offers a space to spend quality time together, engaging in stories, sensory exploration and moments of calm without pressure or rigid rules. 
• For professionals and other centres, the space can also be used for guided sessions, workshops and group activities, extending the library’s role as a cultural and community resource.

Towards more human and inclusive libraries

Le Bélieu shows that it is possible to innovate in cultural spaces without losing their essence. By integrating a multisensory space, the library has created a model that can be replicated in other libraries and institutions, while allowing more people to access, participate in and experience culture in ways that are more welcoming and aligned with their own needs.

👉 This project was made possible thanks to ArchiZenco, our partner in France, whose collaboration was key to bringing this multisensory space to life.

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Control an SHX sensory room with the Sensory Cube

The Sensory Cube is a wireless controller that turns interaction into something intuitive and playful. It allows users to activate and control different elements of the space, either individually or simultaneously. Imagine changing the colors of your sensory room lighting simply by rolling a dice. Each face of the cube can be customised with an image, making it easy to design unique sensory sessions and adapt activities to different goals, users, or moments.

Changing the colors of your Luminea devices has never been so fun and educational. This interaction supports the development of skills such as cause-and-effect understanding, joint attention, and fine motor skills.

With the Sensory Cube, you simply roll the cube and watch as the colors of your Luminea lighting devices change. Your bubble tube, fiber optics, ball pool, and LED lights can all light up according to the color shown on the cube. The experience can be further enriched by combining it with the Luminea App, opening up even more possibilities for sensory stimulation and play.

Users actively engage in this immersive experience, encouraging skills such as choice-making, memory, and communication.

Interaction through movement with the Sensory Step 

The Sensory Step is a wireless, color-coded mat that gives you full control of your multisensory room. Like the Sensory Cube, it allows users to control Luminea devices individually or change the audiovisual scenes included in the SHX System.

This mat is ideal for those looking for a simple and versatile setup. Imagine changing the lighting colors with a single step or transforming the room into a new themed environment just by stepping on the mat.

Step on yellow to change the colors of the bubble tube, jump on red to switch the fiber optics or ball pool. Interaction with the Sensory Step places users at the center of the experience, encouraging active participation in sensory stimulation and supporting learning and development.

The Sensory Step allows you to control your multisensory environment using your feet. Simply step on one of the colored buttons and transform the entire room into a new themed environment. Images, videos, sounds, vibrations, and other immersive effects can be triggered just by stepping on the mat—promoting active engagement and the development of social skills, among others.

Bring objects to life with SHX Proximity

SHX Proximity offers an innovative way to interact within a multisensory room. This technology allows real objects to be used to modify the environment and transform the room into a themed space directly linked to those objects.

Simply place any object on the SHX Proximity tray and watch as the entire room comes to life with lighting, images, sounds, vibrations, and more.

SHX Proximity is very easy to use. The system includes cards and stickers that can be programmed to trigger SHX content. Each card or sticker can be customized and linked to specific scenes or activities.

Once the programmed object is placed on the tray, the room delivers the immersive experience you have assigned.

Explore multisensory spaces through objects with the Magic Table

The Magic Table is another exciting way to interact within a multisensory room. By using real objects, users can transform the entire space into a themed environment connected to what they place on the table.

Simply place an object on the Magic Table and the room comes alive. Lights, images, sounds, music, vibrations, and other multisensory effects activate together, creating a fully immersive experience. An object can instantly transport users to the jungle, space, the sea, or any environment you choose.

The system is fully customizable, allowing you to create your own thematic environments using personal images, videos, and sounds.

It also opens up valuable therapeutic and educational opportunities. By associating everyday objects—such as toys, pictures, materials, or cards—with multisensory content, it supports attention, interaction, memory, cause-and-effect understanding, and communication.

Easy to configure and fully integrated into the SHX System, the Magic Table combines tangible interaction with immersive technology to create meaningful, engaging sensory experiences.

Experience control with Button 6

Button 6 is a versatile controller with six buttons that makes interaction with multisensory room elements simple and intuitive.

By touching different buttons, users can activate and change sensory elements such as lighting, colors, or effects, either individually or across the whole room.

It can be used both with Luminea lighting devices and as a controller for the SHX System allowing sessions to be adapted to different needs and objectives. Its flexible configuration makes it easy to adjust how the environment responds, supporting clear, accessible, and meaningful interaction.

With Button 6, users gain precise and adaptable control over the sensory space, encouraging participation and cause-and-effect understanding.

In summary

There are multiple control methods that make it possible to interact with an SHX Sensory Room in meaningful and accessible ways. By adapting how people engage with the space, these tools support learning, communication, and sensory regulation across a wide range of needs.

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Our partner Consort World, based in Dubai, created a multisensory cabin by integrating our Sensory Go SHX inside a compact therapeutic pod designed to offer calm, regulation and moments of connection or joy in spaces where a full multisensory room isn’t possible.

The concept is intended for children, teenagers and adults who benefit from predictable, low-stimulus environments — especially neurodivergent people who experience sound, light or movement intensely. In schools, clinics, cultural spaces and other settings with limited space, the cabin provides a contained environment where overstimulation slows down and users can reconnect with calm, focus and emotional balance in just a few minutes.

What exactly is a multisensory cabin — and why is it so powerful for calm and regulation?

A multisensory cabin is a small, enclosed space designed to offer sensory safety and regulation in a controlled, private environment.

As Consort World explains:

“The idea behind the multisensory booth was to demonstrate that centers, schools, and hospitals don’t need a full dedicated sensory room to deliver high-quality sensory experiences. By installing a soundproof pod in any open space or atrium, they can immediately create a controlled, immersive environment without major renovations.”

The cabin offers enough room for a child and a therapist — or for an adult to enter alone or accompanied — while still being contained enough to reduce noise, bright light from busy environments and other unpredictable sensory input. The glass door keeps visibility and safeguarding, creating a protected space without feeling isolated.

By providing a predictable, low-stimulus atmosphere, it reduces sensory overload quickly and helps the nervous system settle — making users more open to connection, communication and therapeutic activities. 

What makes the cabin interactive and immersive?

Inside the cabin is a complete Sensory Go SHX — a portable multisensory cart that transforms any space into a therapeutic, wellness or recreational environment. It includes a bubble tube, fiber optics, a vibroacoustic cushion, a projector, integrated audio and a tablet preloaded with scenes and interactive activities.

Qinera’s SHX technology is what makes the cabin truly interactive. With just the press of a button, the entire environment shifts in harmony: lighting, sound, vibration, projection and every sensory element transform at once, creating immersive scenes that feel responsive and alive.

“Qinera’s SHX technology is a core part of the booth’s functionality,” Consort World explained.
“By integrating SHX inside the pod, we turn a compact space into a fully coordinated multisensory environment controlled from a single interface.”

Every scene can be customized by therapists, teachers or by the person using the space. This means the cabin adapts to the sensory and emotional needs of each user. You can create your own content, personalise each activity and offer multiple ways to interact — using the SHX tablet, Button 6, Button 1 or SHX Proximity.

In spaces like airports or shopping malls, this flexibility allows staff to load scenes that reduce sensory overload quickly, guide users toward calm or create familiar, predictable environments that help them navigate overwhelming moments with more ease.

The cabin can also evolve over time. In the Consort World setup, they added a vibroacoustic pouf — which quickly became one of the most grounding elements, offering a comfortable place to sit while exploring the bubble tube and the fiber optics.

A space that supports emotional wellbeing in schools

By reducing sensory input and offering a predictable environment, the cabin helps users return to a balanced state where they feel safe and emotionally grounded. Once regulated, they can re-engage with learning, communication and social interaction with much more ease.

“These spaces help students regulate, making it easier to calm down or refocus. They also promote inclusion by supporting students with different sensory needs in a respectful, accessible way.”

And because the Sensory Go SHX is fully portable, schools can also use it outside the cabin — in classrooms, therapy rooms or any available space — extending sensory support throughout the school day and making regulation possible wherever it’s needed.

Consort World sees multisensory environments as essential for the future of education and accessibility:

“Multisensory environments will play a growing role in supporting inclusion and emotional wellbeing. They give individuals of all sensory profiles a place to regulate, connect, and participate more fully”.

At Qinera, we share the same vision: a future where every person can feel safe, emotionally supported and free to participate in their environment with confidence.

Who else can benefit from a multisensory cabin?

Although the concept began with schools that don’t have space for a full sensory room, the cabin with Sensory Go SHX can support users in many environments where overstimulation is common:

• Mainstream schools: a calming space that helps students reset and return to learning.
• Special education schools: a predictable sensory space for therapy and structured sessions.
• Hospitals: a quiet, contained area that reduces medical anxiety and supports waiting periods.
• Airports: a predictable space for travellers experiencing sensory overload.
• Shopping malls: a supportive corner that creates breathing room in overstimulating spaces.
• Companies: a wellbeing space for employees to decompress and refocus.
• Museums and libraries: a calm zone to regulate before re-engaging with the space.
• Public spaces: a small refuge for anyone experiencing sensory overwhelm.

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Here are five ways to use them that might surprise you:

1. Supporting daily routines in elderly care homes

A sensory environment can accompany different moments of the day with light, sound, and projections: energizing in the morning, calming after lunch, relaxing at sunset. This helps establish healthier rhythms and routines, promotes participation, and strengthens residents’ social connections.

Benefits of a sensory routine for older adults

• Encourages participation and movement during active hours

• Supports emotional regulation and memory stimulation

• Enhances social connection during shared experiences

• Reduces stress and agitation, especially in people with dementia

• Promotes better sleep hygiene through structured sensory cues

A real example: Multisensory Room at STIMA Embajadores
Located in a senior day care center in Madrid, Spain, this space was designed to support daily routines and therapeutic interventions for older adults through a fully immersive environment. With the help of our own technology and specialized lighting, sound, and audiovisual equipment, the room adapts to each session — whether the goal is stimulation, relaxation, emotional regulation, or memory work.

2. Providing emotional support for teenagers

Some schools already use multisensory rooms as safe spaces where adolescents can learn to manage emotions, reduce anxiety, or simply take a few minutes to disconnect. Adolescence is a stage marked by emotional intensity, academic pressure, and constant change. Many students struggle to find spaces where they can manage stress, reset, and feel safe.

That’s why more schools and universities are turning to multisensory spaces as part of their wellbeing strategy.

Benefits of a multisensory room for teenagers

• Reduces stress and anxiety in a safe, non-clinical space

• Prevents sensory overload and emotional burnout

• Improves attention and classroom engagement

• Encourages self-care and emotional autonomy

• Fosters inclusion and accessibility

• Contributes to a positive and caring school climate

3. Creating immersive learning experiences in children

In educational settings, these rooms allow abstract concepts — like the seasons or continents — to be explored through immersive projections, sounds, textures, and light play. Perfect for all types of learning centers.

Turning abstract concepts into real-life experiences

• The four seasons: through projected landscapes, lighting, and sounds

• The continents: with music, images, and interactive scenes from around the world

• Nature and science: through videos, colors, textures, and cause-effect activities

• Storytelling: using light, vibration, and voice to spark imagination and comprehension

By combining projection, sound, light, movement, and interaction, these spaces allow children to see, hear, touch, and feel what they’re learning — making even the most abstract topics easier to understand and remember.

4. Enhancing early stimulation in young children

In early intervention centers, sensory environments are used to stimulate the senses of young children and support cognitive, motor, and communication development from the first months of life.

Why early sensory stimulation matters

• Cognitive development: through cause-and-effect interactions, attention, and visual recognition

• Motor development: by encouraging movement, posture control, balance, and coordination

• Language and communication: with tools that promote engagement and expression

• Emotional development: by supporting self-regulation and reducing anxiety

5. Promoting well-being at work for adults

Some companies are beginning to introduce sensory rooms as rest areas for employees. A break with soft lighting, relaxing sounds, or a starry sky can make a big difference in workplace stress.

Why bring a multisensory room to your company?

• Reduces stress and anxiety: calming the senses helps regulate emotions and prevent burnout

• Improves focus and performance: sensory breaks support mental clarity and reset

• Promotes a culture of care: investing in wellbeing sends a clear message — your people matter

• Enhances talent retention: supportive environments help people stay and grow

• Adapts to any space: Qinera’s technology is scalable, portable, and easy to install

Endless possibilities

As you can see, the possibilities of these rooms go far beyond traditional therapy. At Qinera, we believe multisensory rooms should adapt to the people who use them — not the other way around. That’s why we design each space according to the specific goals, needs, and context of every user. We’re proud to be part of this transformation, making sensory environments more accessible, personalised, and impactful.

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Therapeutic Benefits of Multisensory Rooms

Neurodegenerative diseases impact cognitive, motor, and emotional functions in older adults. These conditions not only affect daily life but also pose significant challenges for caregivers and families. Having access to a multisensory room can enhance the quality of life for everyone involved.

From the perspective of an occupational therapist, multisensory rooms offer a range of benefits that can help mitigate the effects of neurodegenerative diseases. Some of them are:

• Cognitive Stimulation: Multisensory experiences activate different areas of the brain. By incorporating light, sound, and textures, patients can recall and associate information, helping to maintain cognitive function. Imagine a room equipped with a bubble tube, a fan, and a bubble machine. With just the press of a button, all these elements activate simultaneously, making you feel as if you’re underwater.

Multisensory rooms allow for the creation of safe environments with controlled stimuli.

• Reduction of Anxiety and Agitation: The calming atmosphere of multisensory rooms can reduce anxiety and agitation, which are common symptoms in individuals with neurodegenerative diseases. Features such as soft lighting, relaxing music, and aromatherapy create a safe and comforting environment, helping patients find calmness.
• Enhanced Communication and Social Interaction: Engaging in a multisensory environment can facilitate communication. Individuals feel more motivated to interact in a controlled setting, improving their ability to socialize and share experiences with others.

A Multisensory Room can facilitate interaction and communication.

• Sensory and Emotional Activation: Stimulating the senses through various activities can evoke memories and emotions, enhancing emotional well-being. This is particularly beneficial in advanced stages of diseases like Alzheimer’s. For example, projecting family photos or videos in the room can become a meaningful activity to stimulate the senses.
• Promoting Autonomy and Participation: Multisensory rooms allow each person to participate in activities at their own pace. This not only fosters autonomy but also gives them a sense of control over their environment.

The Importance of Multisensory Rooms

Our multisensory rooms are designed to provide unique and immersive experiences that enhance users’ quality of life. We can tailor each space to meet specific therapeutic goals and individual needs.

Multisensory rooms offer many benefits for managing neurodegenerative diseases.

Multisensory rooms are a powerful tool for managing neurodegenerative diseases. Their ability to stimulate the senses, reduce anxiety, and improve communication can significantly impact the quality of life for older adults.

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