A comparison of cross-sensory interactions between Spain and Portugal. The results of a Synaesthetic Design Workshop

Throughout this paper, we are going to present the results of a Synaesthec Design Workshop, made with design students of IADE, Universidade Europeia (Lisbon, Portugal) and University of Extremadura (Mérida, Spain) with the purpose of idenfying different types of crosssensory interacons between parcipants living in the two countries, that might be influenced by cultural and personal informaon. On this purpose the choise of Spain as country to have a comparison was driven by the fact that 13,95% of the Spanish populaon experiences some kind of synaesthesia (Melero, Peña-Melián, & Ríos-Lago, 2015) while in the rest of the world the percentage is around the 4,16% (Simner & Carmichael, 2015). Results suggest probable interacons between modalies with no obvious differences between genders from both the universies.