The University of Applied Sciences & Arts Hildesheim is looking for a new professor for “light & space” for its department of lighting design. Reflecting on the olfactory turn we slightly rewrote the official job opening:
Scent design influences the behaviour of people in crowds at Eindhoven
In addition to light, sound, color and other design dimensions scent is increasingly used to influence human emotions and behavior. Aromatherapy is the discipline that has developed this expertise and knowledge of centuries. Scent Marketing is currently an obvious case. But there are also non-commercial contexts as this story from...
Smithsonian Design Museum: Design Beyond Vision!
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision” . In the 1980s the Swiss design thinker Lucius Burckhardt coined: “Design is invisible“.
Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges
The much-anticipated book from Routledge, “Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques And Challenges”, will come out in hardcover on the 8th of April, 2017, and is currently available for pre-order:
Our Unique Sense of Smell: An Olfactory Research Program
OUSOS is a research program investigating olfaction, our evolutionarily oldest sensory system.
Using scent for innovative alarm clock
The world’s first olfactory alarm clock uses Kickstarter to generate funding for its development and marketing.
Design With Scents | London College of Fashion
There is an increasing interest in olfaction, scent, smell and perfume in major design schools. Here is another great example from London.
The smell of 1930’s Philips light bulb industry
Uncovering the smell of the past Révélateur uncovers the smell of the past and adds a contextual layer of information.
Olfactory spaces: Smell in design education
On the 19th of September, Claus Noppeney and Ashraf Osman of SCI conducted a class for the Signaletik CAS program (context building), part of the Signaletik MAS (Environmental Information Design) at the Bern University of the Arts, under the supervision of Jimmy Schmid.
Scent Culture & Creative Professions:
Scent is now a topic a Bern University of the Arts. Here is the story:
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): ”Olfactory Ontologies“ follows from a longer discussion with Stephen Fortune, an interactive media artist and science editor from London.
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