Understanding smellscapes: sense-making of smell-triggered emotions in place
Xiao, Jieling and Kang, Jian and Tait, Malcolm (2020) Understanding smellscapes: sense-making of smell-triggered emotions in place. Emotion, Space and Society, 37. ISSN 1755-4586
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Abstract
Smells can evoke strong emotions and convey social meanings associated with people and places. This study explored the perceptual process of smellscape perceptions through a case study in Sheffield Railway Station and Bus Interchange. Walk-along interviews were used to collect data on people’s perceptions onsite. It aims to understand how people make sense of their emotions triggered by smells in real life context, in relation to the physical space and onsite environment as well as their subjectivities. Nine perceptual patterns emerged in participants’ sense-makings of smellscapes : recognising or identifying, associating, locating, evaluating, anticipating, contextualising comparing, generalising and personalising. A perceptual process model has been constructive from the empirical data mapping the interrelationships between smells, spaces and emotions. The findings from this paper contributes to the theoretical understanding of ‘perception’ in the smellscape concept. The perceptual process model provides a framework to interpret and communicate smellscapes in future design and planning practice.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100710 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | smellscape, place, perception, process, emotions, social-spatial, empirical | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific) CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-01 - architecture CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-04 - planning (urban, rural and regional) CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-02 - sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of Architecture | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Jieling Xiao | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2020 13:16 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2022 03:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9347 |
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