Ărōma
Sofia Ferrari Sofia Zamagni
Student
Sofia Ferrari Sofia Zamagni Academic staff
Klaus Hackl Ingrid Kofler Ignacio Merino SanchezFayos Course
Unveiling Scents. Designing With, Through, and For Smell. Program
BA Major Design Semester
2024/25 SS Ărōma is a design bench created to rethink public seating. Designed to prevent degradation and promote hygiene, it features modular seats infused with essential oils. The scent-based concept ensures a pleasant, clean, and periodically refreshable space.
A project made in the course
Unveiling Scents. Designing With, Through, and For Smell.
While visual, acoustic, and tactile impressions often take center stage in design education, olfactory perception has received relatively little attention in design practice. Yet, most of our experiences are accompanied by a scent, even if we are not consciously aware of it. Among all our senses, none is as deeply connected to personal memories, and emotions - both positive and negative - as the sense of smell. Shouldn’t this dimension receive at least as much focus and appreciation in design education as the more established media of contemporary design?
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