Sensoria

The sensory dimensions of art and culture
by Gayil Nalls, Ph.D.

Flashmob Robins

‘How do robin flock members communicate with each other in order to coordinate their behavior and orchestrate their flash-mobbing?’ Read More

You Stink! Smell and Politics

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Art: Moving Us from Pain to Pleasure

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Is Occupy Part of the Solution?

With Occupy Wall Street celebrating their one-month anniversary at Zuccotti Park, and having inspired demonstrations in cities around the country and world, more and more people are looking at this social movement and wondering if it represents their concerns and interests, and asking if it can, somehow, help us collectively transcend current destructive political and institutional pat Read More

Over-marketing or Over-marking? Is It both?

Despite a recent announcement that the marketing strategy of arming aggressive fragrance sprayers in department stores is being phased out, on a recent walk through the first floor perfume area of a New York department store, I still felt like I was on the episode of the TV show Friends where Joey is Hombre Guy, a perfume spritzer for Bijon, dueling it out with, Mr. Read More

oo-MOM-ee: Slowing Down Fast Food

When a person eats with unhurried appreciation they consciously use all their senses-sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Read More

Jasmine: The Smell of Revolution

Group identity is forged in many different ways, including sensory stimuli. In the visual realm, common symbols of allegiance, such as the national flag, solidify our connection to a larger group. Read More

Fresh Food as a Muse for Visionary Gardeners

Adaptive Reuse of Industrial and Commercial Buildings for Urban Agriculture and Increased Well Being Read More

What Can We Do About the Rise of Hunger and Unrest?

Nothing destabilizes individuals and countries faster than hunger. In recent years, strain in the global food chain and soaring prices has ignited social unrest far beyond the mere the shock felt by US consumers at the check-out counter. Read More

WORLD SENSORIUM: The World Olfactory Social Sculpture

A single complex scent comprised of culturally associative aromatic phytogenic materials of world flora experienced in the olfactory domain. Read More

Re-Made in America

A newly launched idea that "flips" mass fashion is bringing the fashion industry in sync with t he way people now live their lives. Read More

Fashioning a Socially Responsible Society

 Eco-fashion Couture Culture Read More

High Fashion Has A New Mantra: Summon the Masses

In the press surrounding New York Fashion Week, there was a curious and repeated use of the term "the masses" by highly visible people of the fashion industry. Read More

Olfactory Art: A New Genre

When art is made new so are we. Read More

Olfaction and Conception

Like a bee or hummingbird is attracted to a flower, human sperm smell its way to the egg. Read More

Dating, Mating and Olfaction

How we choose our mates and why many of us wake up one morning to find we're no longer attracted to them.
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Power of Place / Power of Art

Overnight in a remote rustic cabin. No phone. No television. No radio. No computer. Why, you might ask? Read More

Gayil Nalls, Ph.D.

Gayil Nalls, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York.

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