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Sensory maps
Sensory maps depict the world as it is qualitatively experienced, drawing on alternative human sensory modalities to call attention to the more-than-visual sensory characteristics of place. Sensory maps combine aesthetics with empirically sensed datasets to both depict personal, temporally specified realities and to advocate the world as individually constructed. As such many sensory maps are exploratory and artistic in nature. Sensory mapping's roots can be traced to a historical desire to monitor changing urban environmental conditions and to navigational pragmatism. Historical practices that focus on sensed data have led to reforms in public hygiene, the quality of sonic environments, and human-scale urban planning that prioritizes diversity and well-being. Contemporary practitioners, concerned with the emotional, embodied, and affective aspects of cartography, utilize multiple sensory output media in addition to traditional paper and digital forms in order to draw attention to sensed, subjective characteristics and their relationship to place. Where sensory mapping has a pragmatic aim, urban psychogeographic mappings tend toward a political defamiliarization of known environments, drawing attention to emotional and affective powers of the natural, cultural and political. One prime hybrid example is Krygier's Guide Psychogéographique de OWU, the result of an improvised, multisensory project with young students
Invisible, erratic, ephemeral: lives of urban smells
Why the senses matter in my work/research. How I take the senses into account in my work including how I design for sensory experiences. Key methods, as well as challenges, in art and design practice when researching the senses. Challenges of working with urban sensory experience
Practices of smellscape mapping
Traditional paper maps trade in fixities of time and place, boundaries and territories whereas digital mapping affords movement… albeit one of pre-Renaissance where we remain a constant presence at the very centre of our universe. I suggest that there are temporalities invoked by both such mapping practices, especially when it comes to smell.
Today I will follow the journey from my earliest smell mapping experiences to show how I got to this position
Smellmap : Amsterdam - olfactory art & smell visualisation
Creating a smellmap of a city is a subjective, collaborative exer-cise. During a series of smellwalks local participants foreground their sense of smell and name perceived aromas emanating from the urban smellscape. Data and conversations arising from the walks are ‘analysed’ and a representative smellscape of the city is visualised as a map. Scents; the nasal stimuli and a catalyst for discussion accompany the map. As a map of what we don’t know, indications of geo-located smell possibilities and ephemeral scents combine visualisation with the olfactory to place the emphasis on human interaction with sensory data to create meaning and an understanding of place
Lives of urban smells
I discuss how the lived experience of smell can be represented by focusing on some of my art and design work. This work seeks to capture the ephemeral and temporal nature of smells in urban environments
Polyrhythmia of the smellwalk: mapping multi-scalar temporalities
Using research through design this project investigates the layers of rhythms experienced during a smellwalk through its subsequent mapping. The multi-scalar temporalities of the smellscape are revealed through conversations, notes, performance, landscape, photographs and the interplay of theory and practice in map creation. This ontogenetic and performative approach to mapping practices suggests future scenarios of olfactory awareness are best contextualised in an ecological, temporo-spatial framework
Sensations of Roman lives: smell profiles of Roman Silchester based on physical proximity
The smells of Roman times as indicated through archaeological site digs were reproduced to generate a consistent scale of hedonic tone and likelihood of smell detection. The resulting graphics were designed to illustrate these two scales on single graphics creating potential for visual modelling of a Roman smellscape
Olfactory classifications: an incomplete portolan of combined smelly knowledges
A segmented radial convergence data visualisation to facilitate interrogation of how smell vocabularies are shared between different classification systems.
Using words from 5 disciplines combined with human-perceived smells verbatim (from one of my site-specific research projects smellwalking and smellmapping in Pamplona) the diagram suggests how the smells might be categorised according to specialist aroma wheels and classification systems. Cross-referencing expert olfactory terminologies from different disciplines reveals a complexity and confusion in labelling smells, leaves some smells without ‘homes’ and indicates a need for alternative strategies when representing the urban vernacular smellscape
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