Cartographer Kate McLean has put togethera series of "sensory maps" that show how people use their different senses to navigate a city.
She explains on her website: "My research investigates smell perceptions of the city environment, depicting the findings in a variety of artistic, cartographic forms and augmenting and altering the maps on the basis of audience response."
By recording and classifying odours, as well as sounds, touch, and tastes, as she walks through a city, McLean has built up a series of maps of different locations.
Her work covers Edinburgh,
Glasgow,
Paris,
New York, Manchesterand others. In each city, she's meticulously recorded her sense on a map, then removed the map to leave a landscape of multiple different senses. In some cases, like Paris, she also invited people to annotate the map with how they've followed their noses.
You can see more of McLean's maps over on her website.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
