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Sensory chartography : urban smellscapes

Sensory chartography : urban smellscapes. Mădălina Diaconu (University of Vienna). „Haptic and Olfactory Design. Resources for Vienna’ s Creative Industries” (2007–2010) a co-operation between: Institute of Philosophy (University of Vienna)

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Sensory chartography : urban smellscapes

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  1. Sensorychartography:urban smellscapes Mădălina Diaconu (University of Vienna)

  2. „Haptic and Olfactory Design. Resources for Vienna’s Creative Industries” (2007–2010) • a co-operation between: • Institute of Philosophy (University of Vienna) • Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Diagnostics (University of Vienna) • Institute of Botany (University for Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna) • University of Applied Arts Vienna • ZOOM-Children Museum Vienna •  funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)

  3. 1. Methods: How to use your nose to discover a city • Mental smell maps: The subjects are asked to draw a map of the city and to locate on it smells which occur to them spontaneously, using symbols or colours to be explained in a legend. Further parameters (how to draw the map, which symbols to use and how to describe odours) are deliberately left open. • Monitoring smell maps: The subjects select an area to be explored at least once a month. They download its map from the website of the municipality and record on it whatever odours they encounter during their walks, using freely chosen symbols and explaining them in a legend. It is important to note the date and the weather conditions. Alternative: keep a diary of the smells for a particular area.

  4. 2. Results of previous research: Sniffing Vienna Mental maps Participants: 56 students Average age: 26 Gender: 42f /14m Urban/rural: 28 „Viennese“ (born in Vienna oder living in Vienna at least for the last 7 years ), 28 „Non-Viennese“ Date: March 2007, March 2008 Graphics: Kristina Schinegger (Technical University Vienna)

  5. Spatial categories in visualising smellscapes • Paths/tracks: channels along which odours circulate (e.g. water course, streets) • Point-like sources of discrete smells (e.g. pedestrians) • Focuses: strategic points of a city (e.g. the railway station) • Emblems: specific monuments (St. Stephen Cathedral) • Areas.

  6. Paths and tracks

  7. Smell maps as narratives: olfactory “biographies”

  8. Field of forces and crossing trails

  9. One smellscape or plural smellscapes?

  10. Monitoring smell maps • Investigated area: Vienna, inner city • Participants: 12 • Date: April-June 2007, 2008 • Graphics: Kristina Schinegger (Technical University, Vienna)

  11. “The odours of fast-foods in the corridor can be savoured intensively only after entering the shop [...]. For the rest, with the exception of the florist’s and the newspaper kiosks, the shops’ characters cannot be perceived from outside, there are always strong ‘odour thresholds’.” (K.S.) Graphics: Kristina Schinegger

  12. Stephansplatz “The smell of the inner city is a mixture mainly of horse urine, exhaust fumes, sweet smells and the odours of old walls and food.” (I.G.)

  13. Forthcoming publications • M. Diaconu, G. Buchbauer, J. Skone, K.-G. Bernhardt, E. Menasse (Eds.), Sensorisches Labor Wien. Urbane Haptik- und Geruchsforschung (Berlin, Vienna: Lit) • M. Diaconu, E. Heuberger, R. Mateus-Berr, L. M. Vosicky (Eds.), Senses and the City. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Urban Sensescapes (Berlin, Vienna: Lit)

  14. 3. Bucharest, a fabric of aromas „Let’s view, no, let’s sniff Bucharest. [...] Were it a broth, it would be, say, a stew, a well blended mixture of cheap cologne and a handful of freshly spaded soil, a pinch of incense and copious litres of kerosene, gasoline and diesel oil, dry dung, thirsty sand and lime, hot exhaust fumes.” (Magda Cârneci)

  15. Hărți desenate de participanții la workshop MethodologiesCitiesBucharest

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