Serenitea: Exploring material-based opportunities and scent integration in Tea Clay for visually impaired inclusive design

Each year, 5.9 million tonnes of tea is consumed worldwide. However, this large consumption of tea also leads to large amounts of tea waste. Approximately 90% of steeped tea is being thrown away. This waste leads to problems such as environmental pollution. In order to combat this issue, Tea Clay was previously developed as a material made from...

Architecture Nose: Towards multisensory architecture, an exploration of the sense of smell

Smells are everywhere around us. They are within ourselves and around us, they impact us in our mother’s womb and throughout our entire lives, until death. But while sight and touch prevail in the contemporary approach of design and architecture, the olfactive dimension of our built environment is often forgotten.<br/>This thesis aims at...

Adding scent to the IKEA shopping experience, a multi-sensory approach

IKEA Delft inspires visitors to renew their interior. Therefore four times a year a new seasonal theme is implemented using standard visual merchandising. However visitors were not sufficiently aware of the seasonal theme. A more comprehensive communication method was required. To achieve a more submerged experience, carefully selected scents...

Design Process: Designing a perfume package for fashion brand Supertrash based on research findings

Despite the fact that customers name the scent of a perfume as the number one reason for buying it, it is often very difficult for them to find a perfume they really like. Humans are poorly capable to verbally communicate scent characteristics. On top of that the perfume market is extremely large and dynamic and the offering in stores is simply...

The spreading of corpse scent in water: Finding a submerged corpse with the help of fluidmechanical knowledge

A search for a victim of drowning is not always successful in practice: according to a rough guess only one out of ten corpses is found during a search by the authorities concerned. Several methods can be used in order to detect a corpse. In The Netherlands it is common to search with (tracker) dogs on the basis of corpse scent. Scent is...