Sissel Tolaas is a Norwegian artist and researcher known for her work with smell.
10 Facts About Sissel Tolaas
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Sissel Tolaas was born in 1961 in Stavanger, Norway and is based in Berlin.
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Sissel Tolaas first started researching its importance in 1990 through art and design among other fields.
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Sissel Tolaas founded the Institute of Functional Smells in 2010, which focuses on health, education, and well-being.
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In 2016 Sissel Tolaas became a founding member of Future of Education, a collaboration with the Nanyang Technical University Singapore and The Future Education Platform, Berlin.
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Sissel Tolaas has completed 52 City SmellScape research projects since 1998, of, for and with major cities including Paris, Kansas City, Berlin, and Amman.
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Since 2018 Sissel Tolaas is working on an archive of the world's oceans and a project on the morbidity and decay of Detroit.
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Since 2014 Sissel Tolaas has been active in several start-ups in the field of the senses.
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In 2016 Sissel Tolaas launched the world's first Smell Memory Kit; several other devices and sense tools are under development.
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Sissel Tolaas has had engagements with many universities and institutions around the world, including MIT and Harvard University.