Scent Culture Institute

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.
• 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.
• We want to be local activists – Join us!
• We invite you to pay attention to your nose, attune to its input, its wisdom, its whimsy.

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! Activities of Scent Culture Institute have frequently been featured in international media.

Visiting Andreas Wilhelm

Feedback on exhibition

Scent culture workplace

Connecting to the artworld

Panel at Museum Tingueley

Exploring smell at workplaces

Reaching out to the public

How do you see the field and where are you?

Introducing the Art and Olfaction Awards at Esxence in Milano

Geruch & Team: “Ich kann Dich riechen”

Feedback

Exploring the smellscape at the University of St.Gallen

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

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

Sensing the citiy

Hunting scent bubbles

Translating scent in the context of project identity work

Sensory profiling

World Perfumery Congress

Moderating team development games

An independent student study

In the field

(Non-)sense of smelly wheels

Lucas Heusser presenting his thesis

Documenting

Community building in Zurich

Academy of Management

Collective sense-making

Talks & workshops

SCI’s first logo

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Stay updated and browse through our presence on social media.  If you have any questions about Scent Culture Institute or ideas you would like to discuss, please do not hesitate to contact us ! We are particularly interested in possible partners from other social or cultural domains. Thank you for your interest!