Workshop! Saturday October 3 2-4pm
Join us for our mapping workshop as we discover SMELL in DTLA!
Our sense of smell is the most primitive way we relate to the world. We process smells in our limbic systems, which are tied to our most pre-linguistic impulses and ways of remembering and navigating. Our central nervous system is directly linked the limbic system, so as we experience the world olfactorally, it is pure sensation, not coded through the hippocampus into linguistic experience. Direct experience, often why we have trouble placing an olfactory experience.
The city! A city is a system that emits odors and vibrations, secrets under myths of grids and glass, insides and outsides. What if we navigated the city by our noses (our bodies). Ants travel on scent trails (maps)--- What will we remember? We are all slightly synesthesiatic, smells conjuring colors, sounds relaying touch---
Come congnitively map the seemingly familiar routes of downtown los angeles, the derive of the sensory will guide you to trash molecules, locking to your cells, or the sweetness of california sage in the cracks.
The city! A city is a system that emits odors and vibrations, secrets under myths of grids and glass, insides and outsides. What if we navigated the city by our noses (our bodies). Ants travel on scent trails (maps)--- What will we remember? We are all slightly synesthesiatic, smells conjuring colors, sounds relaying touch---
Come congnitively map the seemingly familiar routes of downtown los angeles, the derive of the sensory will guide you to trash molecules, locking to your cells, or the sweetness of california sage in the cracks.
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