Have you noticed that the smells around you have changed? Do you miss the old smells or love the new ones?

Join Tarsh Bates to share your memories and experiences of the smells in your environments and explore tools for understanding how smell connects with your feelings about environmental change.

Aromas are everywhere and affect us and the life around us in ways that words can't describe. Changes in the smells of the world around us can have a significant impact on how we feel physically and emotionally but we don’t usually notice unless it smells bad. Construction and climate change cause some of the biggest changes, but we don’t have a lot of control over these. Finding ways to create new smellscapes can help us feel more connected to the life around us and more empowered to create positive change.

Scents of Solastalgia is a collaboration between Tarsh Bates and Susan Hauri-Downing that began during a Quick Response Artist Residency at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 22.1.2024 -18.2.2024 and is part of Tarsh's Scentsory Foraging postdoctoral research which is supported by Umeå Institute of Design, the Department of Molecular Biology and Um...Arts, Umeå University, Sweden.

Find out more at Scents of Solastalgia