Odors at Châtelet–Les Halles Station in Paris. An Olfactory Approach to Well-Being in the City
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Asking the question of wellbeing in the city might appear as a secondary concern given the current sustainable city concept, which concentrates on minimizing energy consumption and reducing CO2 emissions. However this article proposes to reflect on interactions between the olfactory dimension of a place, the sensoriality of human beings and their state of wellbeing based on the example of the RER B subway platform at Châtelet-Les Halles in Paris. Our work had recourse to neurosciences to deal with the complexity of the olfactory sense, the perception process and the feeling of wellbeing. This work highlights the importance of human condition as a species, as individuals and as social beings in the modes of olfactory perception. It ends with raising new questions, in particular about the link between wellbeing and odor: does odor influence the state of wellbeing? Does absence of wellbeing induce a negative olfactory evaluation? Our research aims to foster a much needed dialog with the neurosciences.
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