Assignment

Assignment 10

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In class exercise: Documenting taste experience at Granville Island Market

At home: documenting taste experience of a raw yellow onion – a dissonant experience. Also comparable to the Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky.

Experience of eating a cooked yellow onion – a harmonious experience.

Drinking object – drafts

Lemonade drinking object – final design. The lemon scent diffuser makes it seem like there is always lemonade in the top, and the straw makes it seem like there is always lemonade in the bottom – a condition which would make it seem like the cup is always full.

Assignment10-Charlotte Chen

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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

A10 – Taste

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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.

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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.