What is it about?
How a city's smells and smellscape were translated into visuals in the form of a map. Research took the form of a series of smellwalks where a population local to the city being studied, Amsterdam, recorded the smells they encountered on a series of walks across the city.
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Why is it important?
With increasing urban populations it is desirable to be able to understand and communicate multi-sensory aspects of city environments. Since we lack an abstract vocabulary for smell the use of visuals to communicate smelly findings may help us appreciate and witness the diversity of whiffs, pongs and aromas around us.
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An early investigation of the potential for visual vocabularies of smell through a case study in Amsterdam. The interpretation into visuals encapsulates the complexity and diversity of the smellscape.
Ms Kate J McLean
Royal College of Art
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This page is a summary of: Smellmap: Amsterdam—Olfactory Art and Smell Visualization, Leonardo, February 2017, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_01225.
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