I found myself in a bit of a smell-mapping wormhole after listening to Act Three of episode 110: Mapping of This American Life (I live in Hastings-Sunrise, so am subject to the putrid smell of the West Coast Reduction on north-west windy days.) In doing so I stumbled upon the work of Kate McLean, “an artist and designer, creator of smellmaps of cities around the world.” McLean’s full portfolio of work is available HERE.
“Smell remains an under-valued and under-researched sense which possesses the capacity to induce time-travel and momentary location-displacement, translating anonymous space into personalised place.” – McLean, K (2013) PhD Abstract Version 3
Related Resources:
Lee, Vivian. 2014. “Data for a New York ‘Smellmap’ Collected Sniff by Sniff” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/nyregion/the-data-for-a-map-collected-sniff-by-sniff.html?_r=1
Young, Molly. 2011. “The Smelliest Block in New York.” New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2011/smelliest-block/
McLean, Kate. Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella and Luca Maria Aiello. 2015. “Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes” In Proc. of the 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella. 2016. “The Emotional and Chromatic Layers of Urban Smells” In Proc. of the 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
Good City Life. Smelly Maps. http://goodcitylife.org/index.html
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