On the 23/24th of October the first international AHRC Sensory Cities took place in London. On the first day we had range of presentations and discussion around the importance of the senses in the built environment and in urban planning. Presentations included (podcasts will be uploaded in the next few weeks on this website): Euan […]
Monthly archives for December, 2015
Chris Miele (Montagu Evans LLP) “Measuring change in a changing city: Understanding London’s expansion” (video)
Kathrine McLean (artist, Royal College of Art): “Invisible, Erratic, Ephemeral: Lives of Urban Smells” (video)
Raymond Lucas (School of Architecture, Manchester University) “Sensory Notations” (video)
Maria Herrera (project officer, City of London) “Designing for the senses in the public realm” (video)
Alex Rhys-Taylor (Goldsmith College) “Fried Chicken and Flat Whites: Olfactory Agents of Demographic Change” (video)
Alex Rhys-Taylor presented his work on the ways in which multisensory ambiences play into the socio-economic stratification of areas. Focusing on Whitechapel Road he contrasted the ways in which the sensory experiences of fried chicken shops and coffee shops cater for different social groups and the tensions that emerge around whose aesthetic codes are allowed to prevail in public spaces.