Odours and opinions are the key components of a smellscape map, and New York has both in abundance. Primary smell research, conducted via human sniffs, was gleaned from the noses of Summer Streets employees and Village Alliance during April, May and June 2017 resulting in a labelled Smellmap of the neighborhood. In August 2017 installation … Summer Streets Smellmapping Astor Place, NYC Read More »
Last week I shared behavior maps created by School of Visual Arts (SVA) students who observed the behaviors of people and non-human animals in Washington Square Park. I am so excited to share another set of four maps with you. These maps were also created by SVA students. Sneha, Nga, Hanna, and Dami designed sensory maps of the park. A sensory map is a vehicle to "show how people use their different senses to navigate a city," writes Duncan Greere in his article about Kate McLean's incredible sensory maps. The SVA student maps of Washington Square Park illustrates how they sensed the park in mostly auditory terms but also emotionally. The first map captures three types of sound and their temporal states. The second map uses nine emotional states to describe the park. The third map also represents sound but focuses specifically on performances and the density of the audience. The fourth map resembles a traditional behavior map in that it categorizes how people are using the park, but taken from a different perspective, the map could be conceptualized as chronicling the ways in which users are actually engaging or not with the park. Image: Sound Map Washington Square Park (source) Image: Emotional Map Washington Square Park (source) Image: Density Map Washington Square Park (source) Image: Sensorial Map Washington Square Park (source) So what do these maps tell us about the park? Music is a dominant auditory force in the park. The impact of natural sounds is centered on the fountain. The power of children's laughter is noticeable at the mounds but insignificant at the other two formal playgrounds. The mounds are welcoming and associated with happy and joyful emotions as shown in the Emotional Map. On the opposite end of the spectrum are the emotions "anxiety, fear, and loathsome" which are generated when in the northwest corner of the park. Have you felt these emotions when walking through this area of the park? The performances near the fountain and in the eastern half of the park generate a lot of spectators. Finally, it's nice to see a healthy mix of recreating in the park -- napping, eating, reading, talking, simply sitting -- as depicted in the Sensorial Map. I'd love to hear what these maps say to you! To Sneha, Nga, Hanna, and Dami, thank you for making Washington Square Park the object of your study. Your rich observations tell many stories about this beloved park. Thanks also to Michael Luck Schneider, faculty at the School of Visual Arts. P.S. Really curious about sensory mapping, especially "scent-scapes"? Check out Edible Geography's fascinating 2012 interview with Victoria Henshaw, Ph.D. (Victoria died in 2014. Her obituary in The Guardian.)
This information graphic is the result of a five-day intensive project at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. www.colindunn.com
OLFACTO-VISUAL COMMUNICATION Noailles market place embodies the gritty, chaotic, everyday, non-tourist, multi-ethnic life of Marseille and...
Fun geography printables plus recommendations for hands-on Geography materials, including felt & wood maps, globes, and Montessori puzzles!
The fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings.
Image 4 of 11 from gallery of Sensory Maps: What the Sense of Smell Can Reveal about Urban Environments. Singapore Smellscape. Image Courtesy of Dr. Kate McLean
Scents conjure up times, people, and places distant from the here and now. At the heart of Kate McLean’s Sensory Maps is the power of aromas, their ability to trigger and concretize emotion and memory. McLean, born and raised in Britain, was inspired by the idea that we form our experience of place through sensory perception.
Every hospital has a particular smell, much like every city these smellscapes comprise a specific combination of odours. This project explores how the NHS hospital might be conceived and understood through its smellscape alone. Interactions of people, cleaning equipment and residual food and drink make for a contingent, intense and pervasive smellscape. The virtual map … Hospital Corridor Smellscape Read More »
Odours and opinions are the key components of a smellscape map, and New York has both in abundance. Primary smell research, conducted via human sniffs, was gleaned from the noses of Summer Streets employees and Village Alliance during April, May and June 2017 resulting in a labelled Smellmap of the neighborhood. In August 2017 installation … Summer Streets Smellmapping Astor Place, NYC Read More »
Spring 2013 in Amsterdam revealed an abundance of the warm, sugary, powdery sweetness of waffles. Oriental spices emanated from Asian and Surinamese restaurants and supermarkets, pickled herring from the herring stands and markets – a link to one of the city’s key historical industries. Old books were detected in basement doorways and laundry aromas drifted … Smellmap Amsterdam Read More »
Creating a visual language for the colour of smell with a 4-step documented process partly inspired by Axel and Buck and partly by previous experiments with smell experience visualised as watercolour. Here I use scent note data from Ghislain’s “The Scent of Departure“ to form visuals for perfume city smells. This results in beautiful smell-colours … Smell Colour DNA Read More »
On December 25th, 2016 a group of 13 people smellwalked Kyiv for two, frozen, hours.Time: 1300h – 1500hTemperature: High 1°CWind: W – 8.7mph Speculating that future generations will foreground alternative sensory modalities as ways of knowing, this work treats smells as affordances of visual perception, equally facts of the environment and of human behaviour. This … Winter Smellwalk in Kyiv Read More »
Using hyperprecise LiDAR data, a cartographer maps the river’s bends and channels over time with mesmerizing results.
Discover free bedtime stories for kids. Enjoy written and audio versions of short fairy tales, perfect for nightly reading and relaxation.
OLFACTO-VISUAL COMMUNICATIONNoailles market place embodies the gritty, chaotic, everyday, non-tourist, multi-ethnic life of Marseille and for this reason it was selected as the starting point for olfactory discovery of the city. For 4 days in February 2015 12 groups of DSAA1 (Design Studies) students smellwalked 12 separate pre-allocated 30 degree geometric sectors, sniffing, seeking and … Smellscape Mapping Marseille Read More »
Sophie Foster uses child psychology to explore how multi-sensory office design can bring out the best in people at work.
We love sensory bags at our house. Ever since I made our first sensory bag, Jumbled Snowman, over a year ago, they are always a guaranteed hit. It is a great way to provide hands on play for toddlers and preschoolers. So of course our Study of the Stars would not be…
Here is a round-up of our favorite Montessori toys and homeschool materials on Etsy! These educactional wood products are for kids age 3-6.
Finland's Unnamed Islands Paper map fragments between microscope slides on aluminum shelves, 1 foot x 8 feet, 2000 Finland's Longest RoadPaper map fragment in glass petri dish, 3/4 x 6 x 6 inches, 2000 Coastal Merger, Reconstructed paper map, 15 x 30 inches, 1993 Dissection, manipulation, pathologies, and coastal mergers are but some of what Nina Katchadourian investigates in her maps. You can visit her at http://www.ninakatchadourian.com . The delicate cut outs, the merging of spaces and creating new identities give her work an ethereal inquisitive appeal.
Sensory mapping and stereognosis can help train your brain and nerves to function better. When the nerves sense information more accurately, it can improve pain.
My three year old has loved playing with maps in an open-ended exploration sparked by his ideas and interests.
Last week I shared behavior maps created by School of Visual Arts (SVA) students who observed the behaviors of people and non-human animals in Washington Square Park. I am so excited to share another set of four maps with you. These maps were also created by SVA students. Sneha, Nga, Hanna, and Dami designed sensory maps of the park. A sensory map is a vehicle to "show how people use their different senses to navigate a city," writes Duncan Greere in his article about Kate McLean's incredible sensory maps. The SVA student maps of Washington Square Park illustrates how they sensed the park in mostly auditory terms but also emotionally. The first map captures three types of sound and their temporal states. The second map uses nine emotional states to describe the park. The third map also represents sound but focuses specifically on performances and the density of the audience. The fourth map resembles a traditional behavior map in that it categorizes how people are using the park, but taken from a different perspective, the map could be conceptualized as chronicling the ways in which users are actually engaging or not with the park. Image: Sound Map Washington Square Park (source) Image: Emotional Map Washington Square Park (source) Image: Density Map Washington Square Park (source) Image: Sensorial Map Washington Square Park (source) So what do these maps tell us about the park? Music is a dominant auditory force in the park. The impact of natural sounds is centered on the fountain. The power of children's laughter is noticeable at the mounds but insignificant at the other two formal playgrounds. The mounds are welcoming and associated with happy and joyful emotions as shown in the Emotional Map. On the opposite end of the spectrum are the emotions "anxiety, fear, and loathsome" which are generated when in the northwest corner of the park. Have you felt these emotions when walking through this area of the park? The performances near the fountain and in the eastern half of the park generate a lot of spectators. Finally, it's nice to see a healthy mix of recreating in the park -- napping, eating, reading, talking, simply sitting -- as depicted in the Sensorial Map. I'd love to hear what these maps say to you! To Sneha, Nga, Hanna, and Dami, thank you for making Washington Square Park the object of your study. Your rich observations tell many stories about this beloved park. Thanks also to Michael Luck Schneider, faculty at the School of Visual Arts. P.S. Really curious about sensory mapping, especially "scent-scapes"? Check out Edible Geography's fascinating 2012 interview with Victoria Henshaw, Ph.D. (Victoria died in 2014. Her obituary in The Guardian.)
OLFACTO-VISUAL COMMUNICATIONNoailles market place embodies the gritty, chaotic, everyday, non-tourist, multi-ethnic life of Marseille and for this reason it was selected as the starting point for olfactory discovery of the city. For 4 days in February 2015 12 groups of DSAA1 (Design Studies) students smellwalked 12 separate pre-allocated 30 degree geometric sectors, sniffing, seeking and … Smellscape Mapping Marseille Read More »
Mind the Map, a new collection of artwork published by Gestalten, shows the skill, humour and care involved in map design, including one depicting New York’s smells, and a meticulously hand-painted ski map
