The Place Of Sound
Monday March 7th, 2022 with Vincent Andrisani
Episode 24 (Dr. Tracey Lauriault Interview)

This is the second of three specially curated episodes, produced in association with Urban Imaginaries project, a collaboration between Carleton University’s Industrial Design Program and Communication and Media Studies Program. The project will run through the spring and will consist of a series of in-person events held in association with Ottawa coffee house Arlington 5. In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Tracey Lauriault of the Communication and Media Studies program at Carleton University. Dr. Lauriault is trained as a geographer, and among her many research interests is scent cartographies. So we took this opportunity to discuss the sense of smell and how we use it as a means of engaging with the world around us. What might we learn about the city on the basis of how it smells? And is smell a modality that could be useful in the context of urban design?