Zhao Zhou is an artist based in the Netherlands whose practice investigates technological interventions in spatial experience through air-based sensory disruption. Trained in interior architecture and furniture design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Zhou develops site-specific installations that expose the hidden constraints of standardized spaces—environments that tacitly demand bodies conform to predetermined participation criteria.

His research deploys arrays of air vortex generators capable of integrating sound and scent, creating invisible spatial interfaces that challenge conventional sensorial hierarchies. These systems provide the potential to interact with multiple human senses beyond visual perception, generate dynamic sensory environments that operate beyond visual dominance. The installations produce what Zhou terms "sensory whitespaces"—momentary suspensions in the built environment's relentless rhythm where information emerges through tactile, auditory and or olfactory experience rather than visual spectacle.

Fundamentally, the work protests against a notopia where environments desire able-bodied individuals and systematically marginalize bodies by requiring constant physical adaptation. By weaponizing air as a design material, these installations advocate for a radical reimagining of spatial engagement, where bodily autonomy is restored and sensory experience transcends the visual regime. The work invites instability not as a disruption, but as an alternative mode of environmental interaction, allowing bodies to exist unburdened by sight and free to experience the nuanced currents of the unseen.