SCENTSITIVE

“Scentsitive” explores a possible future where all living things need to isolate from the atmosphere during a climate crisis (a plot which seems all too real now). Physical and emotional relationships have changed in response to the toxicity of the environment. In that world it is not possible for people to share skin to skin contact. In the face of such loss and profound experience of alienation, the sense of smell has become a powerful, portable and intimate source of comfort and escape. It is also a way of connecting with others and the sensory experience of humans in the centuries past that they see in the digital archives. Humans find an altered happiness in a hybrid simulation of the past in an indoor and individualised world when the external environment is desolate, toxic and dangerous.

Read the full project here.