Olfactory Passage.

Olfactory Passage.

Olfactory Passage.

What if scent could open a window into memory?
This installation invites audiences to enter a glowing portal, explore five scents, and experience how memory transforms through light, motion, and sound.

What if scent could open a window into memory? This installation invites audiences to enter a glowing portal, explore five scents, and experience how memory transforms through light, motion, and sound.

What if scent could open a window into memory? This installation invites audiences to enter a glowing portal, explore five scents, and experience how memory transforms through light, motion, and sound.

Scope

Interactive Installation

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Team

Individual

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Duration

7 weeks

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Year

2025

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Why Scent?

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Why Scent?

Why Scent?

Scent skips logic and goes straight to emotion. What if interaction design could do the same? This project gives smell a voice, turning an invisible sense into a medium for storytelling, where memory is not just recalled but physically and emotionally relived through light, sound, and air.

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The Ritual

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The Ritual

The Ritual

The ritual begins with scent , an invisible signal that awakens the body before the mind. As participants approach, distance sensors trigger waves of light and sound that respond to their movement, unfolding a slow transition from clarity to abstraction.

Each gesture becomes part of the memory itself, breathing, reaching, pausing. The experience moves through layers of perception, transforming scent into presence and presence into recollection.

Opener

Opener

(The object glows like LA sunlight)

(The object glows like LA sunlight)

Sniff

Sniff

(Choose a scent to explore.)

(Choose a scent to explore.)

Approach

Approach

(A sensor detects movement, activating the portal.)

(A sensor detects movement, activating the portal.)

Transform

Transform

(Projections shift with sound.)

(Projections shift with sound.)

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Process

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How I Built It

How I Built It

In an age dominated by screens and visuals, scent reminds us that interaction can be intimate, emotional, and embodied. Olfactory Passage challenges the boundaries of digital experience by designing for the senses we often overlook, touch, breath, and smell.

By giving scent a role in interaction design, the project redefines how technology can connect us not through information, but through presence. It asks how design might help us feel more, not just see more.

Building the installation from code to craft

Building the installation from code to craft

Hands-on making: sculpting the scent vessel

Hands-on making: sculpting the scent vessel

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Outcome

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A Portal of Memory

A Portal of Memory

In an age dominated by screens and visuals, scent reminds us that interaction can be intimate, emotional, and embodied. Olfactory Passage challenges the boundaries of digital experience by designing for the senses we often overlook, touch, breath, and smell.

By giving scent a role in interaction design, the project redefines how technology can connect us not through information, but through presence. It asks how design might help us feel more, not just see more.

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Reflection

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Why It Matters

Why It Matters

In an age dominated by screens and visuals, scent reminds us that interaction can be intimate, emotional, and embodied. Olfactory Passage challenges the boundaries of digital experience by designing for the senses we often overlook, touch, breath, and smell.

By giving scent a role in interaction design, the project redefines how technology can connect us not through information, but through presence. It asks how design might help us feel more, not just see more.

Opener

(The object glows like LA sunlight)

Sniff

(Choose a scent to explore.)

Approach

(A sensor detects movement, activating the portal.)

Transform

(Projections shift with sound.)

Exploring the future of experiences across digital and physical spaces. Whether you’re building a brand, shaping a product, or imagining something new, I’d love to connect.

Yuna Kim © 2025 All rights reserved

Exploring the future of experiences across digital and physical spaces. Whether you’re building a brand, shaping a product, or imagining something new, I’d love to connect.

Yuna Kim © 2025 All rights reserved

Exploring the future of experiences across digital and physical spaces. Whether you’re building a brand, shaping a product, or imagining something new, I’d love to connect.

Yuna Kim © 2025 All rights reserved