Taste
In-class exercise
I use only one side of my teeth to eat so most of my taste sense concentrates on one side of the tongue. As different parts of the tongue have their own sensitive flavour, I conducted this map during eating. As the first thing-pickle had so strong flavour that it influenced later taste sensory. I still had the sour flavour in my mouth while eating sausage.
Drinking object
First was our group pickle. This was the spicy pickle but salt was the main flavor I experienced. I examined the pickle with tongue and tooth independently before experiencing the pickle as a whole bite.
Next was strawberry. My biggest observation was something that I wasn’t thinking about, but another student pointed out: that each strawberry, even picked at the same time from the same farm, was pretty diffrent in flavor.
The bagel was such a mixture of flavors that I don’t actually know how to describe with words that arent just a retelling of the ingredients. Experientially the difference between inner and outer texture was the most important observation. 
At home I decided to go for a cup of tea. The experience of the cup of tea changes with every sip, as the tea cools, steeps, and more.
My walk map in to different sound area on a beautiful sunny day.
Street Sounds in red
Bird sounds in pink
Boat Motor in yellow
The waves in blue
Class exercises at Orchard Commons:
Analysis of my house stairs:
Weird steps at the bottom
And a railing that can not be hold
Last one for fun: the weird dance to go to the toilet room
This first page shows the parameter I created; the categories, attributes, and assignment colour/textures used to describe a flavour
This sheet is the analysis using page one parameters. Open to interpretations, but it is supposed to show which flavours or sensations are more intense or take over taste buds. Also can show the sensations of chewing to swallow, or multiple bites.
In-Class Assignment – visiting the seawall
Assignment 9: Campus Smell Walk
I took a break from studio and walked around campus near Lasserre. While the smells were faint, I could break them into 3 main categories: earthy, manmade, and floral.
Can’t figure out why these are showing blurry…
In-class Exercises
Smelling the seawall
Seaweed on the rocks capture salty seawater which makes the smell stay longer, the wind blowing from the sea strengthens the smell. As the wind was gusting from the sea to seawall, similar to the waves forming several rounds of ripples, smell also shaped an overlayed radiation wave. Like seawater waves disappeared when hitting the rocks, the smell faded away over time.
Smelling in the forest
The smell radiation changed into a different type of overlaying in the forest. Like diverse trees overlayed with each other using their canopy leaving a clear space underneath, the smells of these vegetation, twigs, streams interacted with each other making a natural smell harmony to the center (where I stand). I was surrounded by trees, also surrounded by the combination of smells.
Although leaves smell similar, when they are crushed, they produced different, distinctive, some gentle, some aggressive scents.
Here is the smell map recording my smell experience from UBC village along way back home.
In class exercise
Graphing the relationship between height and the intensity of a smell (ex. things on the ground smell more intense the closer you get to them)
Noticing the smells on my walk from the bus to my apartment building
Notes:
Smellwalk mapping afterwards:
Colour associated with smell, intensity marked by transparency, and size based on duration.
