Designing for social change and awareness narratives with smell

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16. • Spatial - Hierarchical • Cognitive • Emotional • Attraction and Repulsion - - A bee being led to a flower by its smell • Cultural • Expectations influence perception
17. • Odors will be recognized and perceived differently. Associations will be different for different people. • Overpowering smells at the beginning can lead to a numbing of the olfactory senses. Other smells later cannot be recognized. • Using scents is an effective way of adding another experience layer. • The smell of an object need not correspond to its real world smell. • Cultural heritage
22. • Story is important. Why is smell necessary? • Don’t forget other senses • Background smells and Mood Smells • Space design is crucial • Containers/ Smell dispensers • Noseblind • Emit minimum amount
29. Sniffing out the Differences Project with interactive installations maps into scents and visualisations. It explores tales and olfactory associations in south asian cultures from the past, present and future, some factual and some fictional. It explores the theme identity and differences often resulting in xenophobia
31. Precedence for designing for negative emotion and mourning - Murder of jewish museum - WTC - Auschwitz - Jallianwala Bagh Problem Definition: intensity lost
41. This fictional narrative talks about the story of an apprentice learning the craft of perfume making. The protagonist is a native of Kashmir and through the perfumes he creates, he tries to share his experiences and interactions that he has with the various characters who come to the shop where he is learning the craft. The tales talk about the changes that happen in human conditioning in any conflict zone such as Kashmir, through the medium of poetry and fragrances.  Poetry + smell  Primary research  Capturing tales and emotions  Writing poems  scents