smell your route

building a better future for air

objective

The nature in which living beings coexist with plantation has long been disrupted over the years, and although some of the damage done to the earth is irreversible, with new knowledge of the consequences we face generation to generation, it does become our responsibility, particularly if we wish to live out long livelihoods.

Fundamentally, major concerns revolves around ‘life expectancy’ and the urgency of addressing the concern of the life-span decline over the years due to air pollution. This recipe seeks to encourage people to become more aware of not only what they can visibly see, but what they smell around them, getting users to consider what humans engage in that not only pollutes the earth in physical form, but in a form that is easy to overlook - the air we breathe.

recipe for action

Choose an area to create your smell map. It could be anywhere!

1. Go around the area and pay attention to the different smells you encounter

2. Take note of what you smell and where you smell it

3. Take a quick sketch

4. Mark on your map the name of different smells

5. Use different symbols or colours to represent different types of smells

6. Continue to walk

7. Review your map and reflect on what you have discovered

By Yamily Peng, Yuzhuo Li, Lee Gyeongah, Nguyen Ngoc Thuy Nhu, Heiken Bautista.

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