OSMOSPHERIC DWELLING. SMELL, FOOD, GENDER AND ATMOSPHERES

• Authors: Mancioppi Elena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Understanding the tight connections between human dwelling and the sense of smell seems nowadays urgent. Since human being-in-the-world finds it´s very prerequisite in being-in-the-air, an inquiry on air design, today particularly intrusive, is a philosophical necessity. The aim of this contribution is to sketch an exploratory investigation on the aesthetic relationships between space, smell and gendered atmospheres through the case of food, specifically through its osmosphere: its flavour as its affective aura. Firstly, I discuss analogies between atmospheres and smells. Secondly, I proceed by presenting olfactory devices whose aim is conveying gendered food-related and emotional atmospheres, scrutinising the phenomenological intertwining between food, cooking, gender, ‘sense of home’ and the olfactory imaginary of the matter. Finally, I put forward some observations which weave together aerial dwelling and ecological thought.

Keywords

EN

OSMOSPHERE; SMELL; FOOD; ATMOSPHERE; AIR DESIGN

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 38 - 53

Contributors

author

Mancioppi Elena

• University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 9, Pollenzo, Italy

Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.7489494