Designing with Smell (ePub)

The late Victoria Henshaw's last post was as a Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focused upon experiences and design of cities and buildings according to the senses, and smell in particular. Victoria led smellwalks in cities around the world, wrote the blog Smell and the City, and was author of Urban Smellscapes: Understanding and Designing City Smell Environments (2013). Victoria's work featured in broadcast, print and electronic media including BBC Radio 4, The New York Times, New Scientist, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and Wired magazine amongst others.

Kate McLean is a Programme Director for Graphic Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and a part-time PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the RCA, London. Her research through design investigates possibilities for rendering 'eye-visible' and communicating the space between a smell's source and the human nose through practices of smellwalking and smellscape mapping in cities around the world. She has published in Leornardo and Communication Design and her smellmap research has received international coverage, most recently in the New Yorker, BBC Radio 4 and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Dominic Medway is a Professor of Marketing in the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Dominic's work is primarily concerned with the complex interactions between places, spaces, and those who manage and consume them, reflecting his academic training as a geographer. He has published extensively in a variety of leading academic journals, including: Environment & Planning A, Tourism Management, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Cities, European Journal of Marketing and Marketing Theory.