If you want to be a good leader you have to learn how to talk about smell. But why? This post covers some recent work on coping with smell in leadership. Continue reading Let’s talk about smell – how leaders can face this delicate challenge
All posts by Scent Culture Institute: Smelling in Culture, Business & Society
HKB Zeitung: Mit der Nase in die Kunst
Die Kunst setzt an, ein unbekanntes Terrain zu betreten. Das Feld riecht und markiert einen künstlerischen Anfang: Kunst, die den Riechsinn bedient.
Associative potential
“Smell is, with its storing and retrieving characteristics, an associative and expansive rather than an distributive and limiting sensory mode. The lack of terminological paradigms as they exist for colors necessitates linguistic detour through the metaphoric, that is a breach of reference level in the text each time we attempt to describe smells adjectivally. The same holds true for the common reference to smells in terms of their origins. “It smells like” or “the smell of” expresses relations of combination and contiguity rather than of selection and similarity. These two points may serve as a preliminary explanation of why the sense of smell is so often considered the most apt to trigger memory. Its very linguistic structure brings up an Other, a reference to the outside.” – HANS RINDISBACHER
Value of management research @ World Perfumery Congress
At the World Perfumery Congress 2014 in Deauville, Claus Noppeney gave a presentation on the value of management research for the perfume industry. Based on the research projects at Bern University of Applied Sciences he argued that the development of new scents is above all an organizational process that involves the collaboration across disciplines, organizations and the senses. The rise of niche perfumery demonstrates that design-driven, cultural and aesthetic innovation is gaining importance. These non-technical types of innovation hardly follow from the development of new ingredients or technical deliveries. Instead, it is a result of organizing practices known from the creative industries. In fact, it is high time to expand the notion of innovation. A closer collaboration with management and design research is a first step to provide the perfume industry with fresh and informed insights on processes and practices in the industry. This will “open new avenues and complement the programs on ingredients and technical delivery” as Perfumer & Flavorist summarized the presentation.
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“The Making of Wissensduft”: Research Portrayed in Magazine by Swiss National Science Foundation
An article published in “Horizons – the Swiss magazine for scientific research” tells the “making of” story of the initial research project “Wissensduft”: Continue reading “The Making of Wissensduft”: Research Portrayed in Magazine by Swiss National Science Foundation
Dash magazine: Molecular brand competition
DASH, the London-based illustrated magazine on fashion and fashion art, published an interview with Claus Noppeney (Autumn / Winter 2013 Issue): â€Olfactory Ontologies“ follows from a longer discussion with Stephen Fortune, an interactive media artist and science editor from London. Continue reading Dash magazine: Molecular brand competition
Video trailer: Have a look!
This post introduces a video trailer that presents a few snapshots of the research project Wissensduft. Continue reading Video trailer: Have a look!
Talk, Wine & Swiss Cheese at the Institute of Art and Olfaction
In June 2014 the Institute of Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles organized and hosted an informal talk and discussion with Claus Noppeney. He presented insights from the current  projects at Bern.
Continue reading Talk, Wine & Swiss Cheese at the Institute of Art and Olfaction
NZZ: On the sense of smell in art
The Zurich based NZZ published an overview on the current landscape of art & olfaction by Claus Noppeney & Nada Endrissat: Continue reading NZZ: On the sense of smell in art
20minuten: Kein Duft ohne Bilder
20 Minuten (English: 20 Minutes, said Twenty Minutes) is a free daily newspaper in Switzerland. Thanks to the substantial support of the Gebert Rüf Foundation and its initiative for sciencetainment this popular commuter newspaper successfully launched a special science section on a weekly basis. This is the context for this feature:
Thanks a lot to Beat Glogger for his effective communication coaching.
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