The Smelling Committee awakens us to local ecology through the goofy yet meaningful sensory exploration of our neighborhoods. Smelling Committee initiates are invited to explore sniff-along audio guides and post found smells with their cell phones to an online geo-tagged odor data bank. During the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, the whole of DUMBO is turned into an audio tour of odors. Look for plaques to call in for an audio guide, download the pdf map or the podcast .The Smelling Committee is a collaborative project by Caitlin Berrigan & Michael McBean.
They started using Platial to embed the richly researched audio clips that were a part of the original project, making an audio map of smells around DUMBO. Now, the Platial map has expanded to an outreach and collection tool for stories and knowledge about smells in your own area.
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