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Dr Kate McLean is a designer and researcher who explores human-perceived smellscapes, cartography and the communication of ‘eye-invisible’ sensed data. She leads international public smellwalks and translates the data into various media, such as watercolour, animation and sculpture.
- Research
My academic research examines qualitatively-perceived...
- Exhibitions
January 2020 – February 2020 – ‘Charting the World’ / Group,...
- Publications
McLean, K. and French, J. (2023) ‘Two Centuries of Stink:...
- Research
“We had a smell, but we lost it…”. Sensory Maps. Tw; In; Li; © Copyright Sensory Maps
Jul 27, 2022 · Dr. Kate McLean is a researcher and artist who maps the smellscapes of different cities through scent walks and visual translations. Her work explores how smells reveal the cultural, historical, and social aspects of urban spaces and how they affect human perception and well-being.
Dec 8, 2017 · Kate McLean is an artist and researcher who creates smellmaps of different cities based on people's perceptions and experiences. She leads smellwalks, collects data, and develops a smellscape app to preserve and share our olfactory memory.
Kate McLean is a PhD candidate, designer and mapper of urban smells and their shared and individual stories. Working in visual and olfactory communication, her research links human-perceived sensory data with urban environments.
Apr 3, 2017 · McLean, known as Smelly Kate to her friends, aims to render visible and permanent sensory information that is invisible and fleeting—and thus regularly ignored, both by individual people and...
Dr Kate McLean is a graphic designer and olfactory artist who leads the BA Graphic Design programme at the University of Kent. She specializes in representing and communicating smellscapes, social performative mapping and sensory design.
