Mapping Smell's Shadows

"Mapping Smell's Shadows" explores the political potential of scent to bridge cultural divides in public spaces. Through community-facing smell mapping workshops they present participants with the opportunity to attend to, reflect on, and potentially intervene in how they understand and respond to scents in public spaces. This research project’s overarching goal is to investigate scent’s political potential in the Phoenix metropolitan area by transforming olfactory borderlines into olfactory borderlands. In doing so, interpreting – and helping others make sense of – the malleable political nature of scents and the spaces scents travel through.