Activities | Scent Culture Institute: Smelling in culture, business & society

Scent Culture Institute is a hub for projects on smelling in culture, business & society based at Bern & Zurich in Switzerland:

We offer thought leadership on the use of the senses in an increasingly experiential & aesthetic economy through consulting services, workshops and presentations.
We initiate and lead cutting edge research projects at Bern University of Applied Sciences.
We are cultural producers.
We offer innovative teaching & training in world class art, design & management education programs.
We are active members of international networks: business, culture, academia.
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We continuously explore, occasionally discuss emerging trends or interesting cases and share our views.
We invite you to pay attention to your nose, attune to its input, its wisdom, its whimsy.

The formation of Scent Culture Institute responds to undergoing changes in business, postmodern life and intellectual thought. Here is the story.

Western culture & society will only develop further, if it turns scent into a stimulus for critical reflection – not an invitation for hypnosis. Since founding Scent Culture Institute in 2014, we have been working on this premise. More recently, we have fleshed out some of the guiding ideas in our contribution to Designing with Smell: Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges: Culturalizing scent!Â Activities of Scent Culture Institute have frequently been featured in international media.

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Please feel free to skim through our multi-facetted history of snapshots:

Talking about the car as an olfactory artifact at Mediamatic in Amsterdam

Panel at Esxcene in Milano organized with Bodo Kubartz: Barbara Herman, Rosella Caputo, Lisa Bonfatti

Working with raw materials at the University of the Arts in Berlin

Wissenschaftskommunikation, Talk & presentation, Vermittlung — Talks & workshops

Initiating a debat on (non-)sense of smelly wheels

Panel with Christophe Laudemiel at UBS Arts Forum chaired by Dr. Karolina Jeftic

Visualizing scents & analyzing the visualization of scent at the University of the Arts in Berlin

Visualizing scents & analyzing the visualization of scent at the University of the Arts Berlin

Discussing olfactory perceptions at the SCO workshop in Talinn with scholars in organization studies

Exploring the smell scape at the University of St.Gallen

Associating smelly perceptions at Scent Culture Initiative

Exploring Osmodrama with UDK students and meeting the artist Wolfgang Georgdorf in Berlin

Lucas Heusser and Jasmin Rehman having fun at Scent Culture Initiative in Zurich

Sharing olfactory perceptions in a workshop

Perfume-making, scent development, Wissensduft, feedback, exhibition Bellerive — Feedback

Creating an olfactory identity at the CKSTER festival in Bern

Translating scent in the context of project identity work

Analyzing an olfactory identity with scholars in organization studies

fieldwork, empirical research, ethnographic work — In the field

Introducing the Art and Olfaction Awards at Esxence in Milano

How do you see the field and where are you?

Hunting scent bubbles

Speculating on olfactory impressions at Scent Culture Initiative

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If you have any questions about Scent Culture Institute or ideas you would like to discuss, please do not hesitate toÂ contact usÂ ! We are particularly interested in possible partners from other social or cultural domains. Thank you for your interest!

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Thought leadership, talks, workshops, cultural production & consulting in an experiential & aesthetic economy Bern, ZÃ¼rich, Schweiz