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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!

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.

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Documenting
Documenting
Hunting scent bubbles Scent Culture Institute
Hunting scent bubbles
interpreting, categorizing scent, riechen, deuten
Collective sense-making
Panel with Christophe Laudemiel at UBS Arts Forum chaired by Dr. Karolina Jeftic
Panel with Christophe Laudemiel at UBS Arts Forum chaired by Dr. Karolina Jeftic
Presentation
Lucas Heusser presenting his thesis
How do you see the field and where are you?
How do you see the field and where are you?
Perfume-making, scent development, Wissensduft, feedback, exhibition Bellerive
Feedback on exhibition
Fragrance wheel, aroma wheel, fragrances of the world
(Non-)sense of smelly wheels
Reaching out to the public: Kunst Duft NZZ
Reaching out to the public
Community building in Zurich Scent Roundtable
Community building in Zurich
Translating scent in the context of project identity work
Translating scent in the context of project identity work
Scent culture workplace
Scent culture workplace
Sensing the citiy Bern Kindlifresserbrunnen
Sensing the citiy
Sensory profiling, Kaffee; Coffee; sensory experience, product scent
Sensory profiling
An independent student study
An independent student study
Introducing the Art and Olfaction Awards at Esxence in Milano
Introducing the Art and Olfaction Awards at Esxence in Milano
Feedback, management education
Feedback
Connecting to the artworld: Schnupperschau, Thun
Connecting to the artworld
Panel, Symposium Belle Helaine
Panel at Museum Tingueley
Geruch & Team: "Ich kann Dich riechen"
Geruch & Team: “Ich kann Dich riechen”
Perfume studion, teaching smell culture
Visiting Andreas Wilhelm
Panel at Esxcene in Milano organized with Bodo Kubartz: Barbara Herman, Rosella Caputo, Lisa Bonfatti
Panel at Esxcene in Milano organized with Bodo Kubartz: Barbara Herman, Rosella Caputo, Lisa Bonfatti
fieldwork, empirical research, ethnographic work
In the field
Exploring the smellscape at the University of St.Gallen
Exploring the smellscape at the University of St.Gallen
World Perfumery Congress
World Perfumery Congress
smellscape, workplace, office, smellmap
Exploring smell at workplaces
Wissenschaftskommunikation, Talk & presentation, Vermittlung, science communication
Talks & workshops
Scent Culture Institute
SCI’s first logo
Academy of management, metaphor, analogy, product development
Academy of Management
Moderating team development games
Moderating team development games

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