SMELL DENSITIES IN CITIES
A greater number of smells were perceived on street corners where human activity, architecture and wind pattern combine indicating a vernacular olfactory density in urban space.

MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
The artwork makes use of olfactory data collected in-situ from 5 smellwalks. The process of mapping through smellwalking proposes that our olfactory sense has the capacity to alter our perception of urban territories. In the resulting motion graphic, Smellmap: Pamplona, every individual smell goes through 3 distinct stages:

Smell forms as individual particles emerging at approximate geographical sources (data from the smellwalkers)

Smells is shifted by wind direction and speed (taken from weather data) for a timed duration/longevity (as noted by the smellwalkers)

Smell volatilises into thin air as we finally enter the lived-in world of the smellwalker trying to clutch at, and identify, an elusive aroma that simply disappears

Sensory territories are elusive and personal.

EPHEMERALITY
The map is designed to be as ephemeral as the data; a series of volatile components, representing human moments in time, a contested smellscape of an autumnal city in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees. The works starts to explore possible methodologies and cartographic languages for collecting and displaying olfactory datasets.