Dayna Carney

Scent is the only sense that is directly linked to the memory and emotional learning centers of the brain, says  Rachel Herz , a neuroscientist at Brown University and an expert on the psychological science of smell. 

Reconstructing scents from the past isn’t easy. To create the “Follow Your Nose” exhibit in 2022, Museum Ulm partnered with  Odeuropa , a project that’s developing new methods—including artificial intelligence and sensory mining tools—to identify and preserve  Europe ’s heritage

smells.

Because that’s what it was like before the Internet. You made your own fun.

" As a designer I make these kinds of choices all the time. I make them very quickly because I am so familiar with them. I do it so naturally that I forget how many choices there are. I have never worked quite like this before and certainly wouldn’t do it for another client. This was different."

Patience is chic.

Online culture encourages young people to turn themselves into a product at an age when they’re only starting to discover who they are.   When an audience becomes emotionally invested in a version of you that you outgrow, keeping the product you’ve made aligned with yourself becomes an impossible   dilemma.

Even so, I was also a teenager, making decisions based on the visibility that our culture teaches us to desire. I knew that my audience wanted to feel authenticity from me. To give that to them, I revealed pieces of myself that I might have been wiser to keep private.