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Kristian Lebitania- Assignment 9

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In-Class Exercise (Stanley Park field trip)

This drawing is an experiential analysis of visiting the shoreline in Stanley Park. This area of the park had a strong ocean salt smell. I had begun to depict more specific smells of this area by noticing micro habitat such as seaweed and mussels. These had stronger salty fishier smells to them.

Assignment 9

I recorded smells I observed on my visit to the coffee shop at the southeast corner of Cornwall and Yew in Kitsilano. I mapped 5 powerful smells that were big parts of my journey and experience. I often go to this coffee shop and experience the familiar smell of walking by the cannabis shop, and of course the smell of coffee when entering the coffee shop. However a person with heavy coconut smelling perfume sat beside me and their scent would fill the air around me every time they moved or repositioned themselves. This was a very strong smell that overpowered the coffee smell at that area of the shop. Smells that I had realized I didn’t notice before were the smells of the exhaust of the heavy car traffic and the 002 Downtown bus that makes frequent stops in front of the shop. Mapping these scents in plan view was significant in how I recalled how I felt when positioning myself in different areas where each scent was present. This analysis also conveyed to me how a static urban spaces can still hold dynamic experiences.

Lauren Wolfe – Assignment 9

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Walking the beach on Stanley Park I mapped the sites my dog, Felix, stopped and was sniffing. I imagined that he was able to smell what I could not. The green saturation spots are where I tried to represent what those smells might feel like for him. Below, while on site, I 3d scanned the places he was most interested in.

Smelling Stanley Park. Below are three images that represent not what I smelled while at the park but how I noticed the air felt and how smell hung in the air. On the beach the air smelled fresh and light and transient. As we moved deeper into the forest the air clung to the place, it felt less light and more heavy.

sketch of my initial sense of being in the three locations

Assignment 9 – Roxane Gregoire

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Class: We went to the sea wall to experiment with different natural smells. During this exploration I drew the object that was representative of what I was smelling around me. From the sea salt to the woody decomposition of a tree.

When I came back home I went on a walk to my usual spot: Jericho Beach. A similar smell occurred to me. So instead of drawing them again, I drew a map of the smell intensity and space during my walk.

Assignment09-Charlotte Chen

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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.