Scent Culture Institute is a hub for projects on smelling in culture, business & society based at Bern & Zurich in Switzerland:
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! Activities of Scent Culture Institute have frequently been featured in international media.
Please feel free to skim through our multi-facetted history of snapshots:
Discussing olfactory perceptions at the SCO workshop in Talinn with scholars in organization studies
Enjoying feedback on a workshop
Working with raw materials at the University of the Arts in Berlin
In the field exploring the creative practices of perfumers
Panel at Museum Tingueley
Lucas Heusser presenting his thesis at Süskind in Zurich
Community building in Zurich with Brigitte Witschi, Mayumi Matthaeus, Saskia Wilson-Brown and Ashraf Osman
Exploring smell at workplaces
Geruch & Team: “Ich kann Dich riechen” – a snapshot from working with managers
Displaying workshop results
Documenting at Bern University of the Arts
Connecting to the artworld and co-curating an exhibition series at Kunstmuseum Thun
Speaking at the World Perfumery Congress
Sharing olfactory perceptions in a workshop
Being interviewed by CKSTER
An independent student study
Visualizing scents & analyzing the visualization of scent at the University of the Arts in Berlin
Talking about the car as an olfactory artifact at Mediamatic in Amsterdam
Initiating a broader debate on the (Non-)sense of smelly wheels
Visiting Andreas Wilhelm with business students from the University of St.Gallen
Hunting scent bubbles at Bern Urban Scent Walk
Scent culture workplace
Panel with Christophe Laudemiel at UBS Arts Forum chaired by Dr. Karolina Jeftic at UBS
Exploring Osmodrama with UDK students and meeting the artist Wolfgang Georgdorf in Berlin
Visualizing scents & analyzing the visualization of scent at the University of the Arts Berlin
Enjoying feedback
Associating smelly perceptions at Scent Culture Initiative
SCI’s first logo
Translating scent in the context of project identity work in an Executive Education program
Creating an olfactory identity at the CKSTER festival in Bern
Presenting at CKSTER festival
Talks & workshops
Moderating team development games with executives
Exploring the smellscape at the University of St.Gallen
Introducing the Art and Olfaction Awards at Esxence in Milano
Sensing the city at Bern Urban Scent Walk
Sensory profiling with executive in a training session on customer experience
How do you see the field and where are you?, initiating a discussion at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles
Reaching out to the public via Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Lucas Heusser and Jasmin Rehman having fun at Scent Culture Initiative in Zurich
Analyzing an olfactory identity with scholars in organization studies
Panel at Esxcene in Milano organized with Bodo Kubartz: Barbara Herman, Rosella Caputo, Lisa Bonfatti
Collective sense-making with managers
Making scent a topic at the Academy of Management
Enjoying the feedback on being part of an exhibition contribution
Speculating on olfactory impressions at Scent Culture Initiative
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