For this year's Surface Design Show, a 3-day event in London about innovations in the field of surface material and design, The Design laboratory will present The Sensory Gateway, an installation that challenges our considerations of the built environment. This responsive environment will react to touch and heat, triggering an array of applied technologies: elumin8's weaved luminescent sheets will form sensory envelopes and paths that react to movement and sound; "Toile de Hackney", Carole Collet's intelligent textile, responds to movement; translucent skins for buildings, developed by Vector-Foiltec, reacts like the human body to light, temperature and pressure; Abet Laminati's digitally printed sheets; Eleksen 's textiles map gestures and trigger spatial reactions and IFF fragrances will be impregnated into surfaces, dispersing throughout the installation perfumed nodes that are sensitive to movement and touch.