SCENTinel

Climate Changes and Scent Heritage: The Urgent Need for Capturing and Preserving Olfactory Landscapes in a Changing World

Climate & Cultural Heritage Joint CallClimate science

As the world grapples with the escalating impacts of climate change, not only are physical landscapes undergoing drastic alterations, but olfactory landscapes the scents integral to our cultural heritage are also endangered. Scents, whether tied to natural environments, rituals, or social customs, serve as potent triggers for emotional and evocative memories. These olfactory experiences are crucial in defining our shared history and collective identity.

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This project underscores the need to urgently address the climate-induced vulnerabilities affecting our scent heritage. Employing interdisciplinary methods spanning neuroscience, cultural studies, and cutting-edge technology, we aim to create a robust framework for capturing, digitizing, and preserving these imperiled scents.

Our Intellectual Property (IP) will provide tools that enable us not just to document but also to reproduce these scents, much like we do with visual and auditory heritage. By focusing on the climate-change-driven threats to our olfactory landscapes, this project serves as a vanguard initiative for holistic cultural preservation, ensuring that future generations have access to this often-overlooked yet invaluable facet of human heritage.

Idelfonso Nogueira

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

I seek to promote synergy between new technologies and classical strategies for developing disruptive solutions to face modern society's challenges, focusing on merging artificial intelligence, advanced control, systems optimization, digitalization and automation. My research has four main branches working together to promote a new and sustainable industry. I call the synergy between these branches, AiP2S2 (Artificial Intelligence-powered Products, Processes, Scales and Systems)

Idelfonso Nogueira has a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Porto in Portugal, a master's in Industrial Engineering from Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and a master's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Porto in Portugal. Between 2016 and 2018, he was a visiting researcher at the Tampere University of Technology in the Automation Science and Engineering Department, Finland.

Project consortium

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Università Ca'Foscari Venezia
The National Research Council
Institute of Information Theory and Automation

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Funding agencies

The Research Council of Norway
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Ministry of Education, University and Research

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Climate&Cultural Heritage

Collaborative Research Action by the JPIs on Cultural Heritage and Climate and the Belmont Forum

This Call is jointly organised between the Joint Programming Initiatives Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH) and Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (JPI Climate) and the Belmont Forum. The Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level.

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