Jieling Xiao is Reader in Architecture and Sensory Environments at the Birmingham City University, UK. Trained as an architect and urban designer, Jieling believes that designers need to consider more than just how the hardware of architecture functions for its users. Interested in creative spatial practice related to people’s sensory experiences, she has developed her research and research-led teaching on smellscapes and soundscapes looking at theories and design frameworks that take an appreciative approach to deal with sounds and smells in the built environment. She is the lead editor of the Frontiers research topic “smell, wellbeing and built environment” and funder of the smellscape catalogue (www.smellscapecatalogue.com), a digital archive of smellscape interventions.

• Foreword - Anna Barbara 1. Scents of place 2. Creating smell-spatial narratives 3. Materialising smellscapes 4. Case studies 5. Towards a smellscape ecology Afterword - Suzel Bazel

Jieling Xiao is Reader in Architecture and Sensory Environments at the Birmingham City University, UK. Trained as an architect and urban designer, Jieling believes that designers need to consider more than just how the hardware of architecture functions for its users. Interested in creative spatial practice related to people’s sensory experiences, she has developed her research and research-led teaching on smellscapes and soundscapes looking at theories and design frameworks that take an appreciative approach to deal with sounds and smells in the built environment. She is the lead editor of the Frontiers research topic “smell, wellbeing and built environment” and funder of the smellscape catalogue (www.smellscapecatalogue.com), a digital archive of smellscape interventions.

• Foreword - Anna Barbara 1. Scents of place 2. Creating smell-spatial narratives 3. Materialising smellscapes 4. Case studies 5. Towards a smellscape ecology Afterword - Suzel Bazel