Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges

Kate McLean is a designer, mapper and collector of urban smells working in visual and olfactory communication. Victoria led smell-walks in cities around the world, wrote the blog Smell and the City, and was author of Urban Smellscapes: Understanding and Designing City Smell Environments (2013). Chris was Chair of the International Cartographic Association Maps and Society Research Commission and is author of numerous books and academic articles.Gary Warnaby is Professor of Retailing and Marketing in the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research links embodied sensory data with urban environments in the form of sensory maps. About the AuthorThe late Victoria Henshaw’s las

Using a combination of analogue and digital techniques she creates smellmap installations which exhibit worldwide and leads public smellwalks to promote everyday olfactory understanding. His research interests lie at the interface between mapping technologies and social and cultural practices, with ongoing research into performative aspects of contemporary mapping behaviour, an interest in sensory mapping, and an emerging interest in play. She is Senior

Designing with Smell aims to inspire readers to actively consider smell in their work through the inclusion of case studies from around the world, highlighting the current use of smell in different cutting-edge design and artistic practices. This book includes some of the leading academics in the field, working with, or thinking about, smell in spatial design in some way, originating across different geographical areas, academic disciplines and professions. This is crucial reading for students, academics and practitioners working in olfactory design.. This book emphasizes spatial design in numerous forms and interpretations – in the street, the studio, the theatre or exhibition space, as well as the representation of spatial relationships with smell. This book provides practical guidance regarding different equipment, techniques, stages and challenges which might be encountered as part of this process