This two-part workshop invites participants into an immersive exploration of scent, memory and storytelling.

The day begins with a guided meditation and a smell walk through Parc des Trois Glands. As we attune to the park’s olfactory landscape, we’ll reflect on the emotions and memories different scents evoke. Along the way, participants will collect small amounts of plant material, offered in exchange for a ritual act of care and decomposition - giving something back to the soil.

In the afternoon, we gather for a collective distillation session, extracting the essences of the plants gathered in the morning. Guided by readings from writers such as Robin Wall Kimmerer and Ursula K. Le Guin, we will reflect together on the question: What do possible futures smell like?

Each participant will bottle their own blend - part scent, part story - carrying away a fragrant trace of shared experience and imagination.

Program co-curated by Dr. Aouefa Amoussouvi and António Mendes, head of the Publics Department at Mudam.

Biography

Alanna Lynch is a Berlin-based artist and researcher working with living entities, organic materials, smell, and performance – examining the politics of affect, questions of agency, and the stickiness of feelings. She draws on diverse studies, activism, as well as her own embodied experiences. She has exhibited and performed internationally and was a recent artist in residence at the Banff Centre (Canada). She was a founding member of the artist collective Scent Club Berlin, and her work has been supported by grants from Germany, Canada, and Sweden. In 2018 she was awarded the Berlin Art Prize.