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smellmaps

An extensive system of urban “smellscape” maps based on her olfactory research.

A focus on human perception of urban smellscapes – rendering it as “eye-visible” through mapping. While the visual dominates and the digital distances, we should re-connect with our sensing selves so as to relate to where, and who we are. The sense of smell is intriguing, elusive and ephemeral; and that is of itself captivating and worthy of study.

Smells form part of our knowing, but are elusive, often disappearing before they can be described pinned down. Smell perception is an invisible and currently under-presented dataset with strong connections to emotions and memory.