THE PRINCIPLE OF EMERGENCE: "…more is different. When things are combined meanings emerge, a most benevolent principle behind the universe". Charles Jencks. Imagination & creativity. Travel. Education. Sensory Maps.

Odours and opinions are the key components of a smellscape map, and New York has both […]

On December 25th, 2016 a group of 13 people smellwalked Kyiv for two, frozen, hours. Time: […]

This segmented radial convergence diagram can be used to facilitate interrogation of how smell vocabularies are […]

In my practice there is no smellscape mapping without the smellwalk; the maps emanate from the […]

Walking through the smellcape This model explores Singapore’s smellscape previously created using human-perceived ‘smelldata’ collected from 9 […]

Concept Statement: This work explores Singaporeans’ relationship with their olfactory urban environment through a series of […]

OLFACTO-VISUAL COMMUNICATION Noailles market place embodies the gritty, chaotic, everyday, non-tourist, multi-ethnic life of Marseille and […]

EPHEMERALITY “We had a smell, but we lost it…”, commented Marta Calvo during one of a series […]

City smells provide an insight into the make-up of a neighborhood as highlighted by Victoria Henshaw […]

“Masked” Scent Walking in Ellesmere Port A July weekend in Ellesmere Port saw 3 walking tours of sensory discovery. […]

LITERAL : summer fruit The scent from Canterbury’s greengrocers extends into the street as warm summer temperatures […]

Smellmap Amsterdam©KateMcLean2014 from RCA IED on Vimeo. People expect Amsterdam to smell primarily of cannabis. Cannabis […]

From “Preconception to Perception” a smell map of Milan incorporating the scents that feature in or […]

Glasgow’s smells are of movement, of reinvention, of rebuilding, of regeneration. A city of renewal. Researched […]

Newport’s scents are largely ocean-based; the ocean itself, the lobster bait, suntan oil from the bathing tourists, beach roses that brighten the low lying sand dunes. In contrast country smells of hay and juniper speak to the rural aspect of this diverse city.

Before reading Molly Young’s article entitled “The Smelliest Block in New York” – Deep in the […]

Auld Reekie emits a plethora of scents and smells; some particular to Edinburgh, some ubiquitous city aromas. […]

The audience were invited to: SMELL a scent from any of the bottles RECALL what it […]