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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Odours and Spatialities: Designing Sensory Experiences
Author : Luisa Paraguai
Published in: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design Methods, Tools, and Interaction Techniques for eInclusion
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Smell is a chemical phenomenon, historically signified and culturally shared; it creates deep interactions, enforcing social structures or transgressing them. From natural environments to urban spaces, the large variety of odours can stimulate olfactory senses and evoke experiences, in which pleasant and unpleasant, and even non-smelling scents, are combined as parameters of spatial limits. The main aim of this paper is to contextualize some chemical and cultural aspects of smells, and their potential to create and reconfigure spatial orientations. Based on Constance Classen, David Howes, and Anthony Synnott’s researches, odours are understood as cultural classification systems, and therefore they are possible modes of ordering the world. At the end, some projects and scent maps are brought since odours are considered an aesthetic medium to design evocative experiences and perceptive access modes.