https://alamedaheartnotes.info Alameda Heart Notes Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:08:05 +0000 https://alamedaheartnotes.info en https://alamedaheartnotes.info/Home-Image Sun, 05 May 2019 22:11:09 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/Home-Image Smell is the sense most strongly linked to memory. Scents can transport us through time and space, allowing us to revisit a person, a place, or even a feeling. But smells can do more than connect us to our own past; they can also connect us to history. In this project, we have used the sense of smell to explore one geographical location through time, invoking everything from tangy citrus groves to human toil, from the soot produced by a train engine to fresh fruits and vegetables, from soap to sagebrush. Working with the artists at The Institute for Art and Olfaction, we have harnessed the craft of perfumery to create smellscapes representing specific eras and industries, allowing for a visceral and vital (if not always sensorially pleasant) journey through the history of a crucial Los Angeles landmark. In the pages below, we give a brief overview of the history of each era, as well as a description of how we chose to evoke it through scent. These olfactory offerings, along with our research on the site's history, will be available for view (and, of course, smell) at the&nbsp;LA Design Festival&nbsp; June 2019.Download the poster. https://alamedaheartnotes.info/2019 Mon, 06 May 2019 21:01:16 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/2019 2019 The Row DTLA After the departure of American Apparel, the Alameda warehouses were converted into mixed-use commercial and creative office space. The Produce Market still operates in its original location on the site, serving as a commercial hub for the city. This scent will be made the week of the LA Design Festival! Please stop by the Scent Bar to participate the week of the Festival. <img width="1579" height="1244" width_o="1579" height_o="1244" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0749d16e9d2ac9dbf448871839ffd8c0e67b2224724aac9bbf2a92d0db3bfec/2019_Today.jpg" data-mid="42478955" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0749d16e9d2ac9dbf448871839ffd8c0e67b2224724aac9bbf2a92d0db3bfec/2019_Today.jpg" /> https://alamedaheartnotes.info/2000 Mon, 06 May 2019 20:27:20 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/2000 2000Industrial Reuse: American ApparelThis era brought in the first wave of industrial reuse on the site, when clothing manufacturer American Apparel opened its factory and headquarters. For this workshop, we brought in Iris Alonzo of Everybody.world. Iris worked at the American Apparel site for years in the 2000’s, and shared with us her insights into its history and day-to-day sensory experience. This scent was crafted at a workshop in May of 2019.&nbsp; It will be available to smell at the LA Design Festival. <img width="503" height="335" width_o="503" height_o="335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0884886c5c0cc32ef53df08212e04d0edfac58178625e6d1951a0edc8d86a46f/2000_American-Apparel.jpg" data-mid="42479029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/503/i/0884886c5c0cc32ef53df08212e04d0edfac58178625e6d1951a0edc8d86a46f/2000_American-Apparel.jpg" /> https://alamedaheartnotes.info/1917 Mon, 06 May 2019 00:28:15 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/1917 &nbsp;&nbsp; 1917 The Terminal Market In 1917, The Los Angeles Terminal Market opened near Alameda and 9th streets. This was a major development in the wholesale produce market district, and it still operates today. The workshop for this scent is scheduled to take place in June of 2019. <img width="1102" height="1148" width_o="1102" height_o="1148" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56366210f17ce22f2a8e08fb4658f4e36f63ac40d893f4ff77cdfd209558d214/1917_Terminal-Market.jpg" data-mid="42479065" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56366210f17ce22f2a8e08fb4658f4e36f63ac40d893f4ff77cdfd209558d214/1917_Terminal-Market.jpg" /> https://alamedaheartnotes.info/1876 Sun, 05 May 2019 22:11:09 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/1876 1876 Citrus Groves and the Arrival of the Railroad In this period, agriculture and growth in Los Angeles continued to shift rapidly through changing politics, forces of nature, and supply and demand. The Mexican-American War of 1846 placed sovereignty in the hands of Americans as Alta California, under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, became a territory of the United States. The workshop for this scent will take place in May 2019.&nbsp; <img width="442" height="517" width_o="442" height_o="517" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5990d7aff638b56954ee29c9d52b467696c13701aaffcf480cf831da7b4fe26/1876_Train-Citrus.jpg" data-mid="42479071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/442/i/f5990d7aff638b56954ee29c9d52b467696c13701aaffcf480cf831da7b4fe26/1876_Train-Citrus.jpg" /> &nbsp; https://alamedaheartnotes.info/1833 Sun, 05 May 2019 22:11:09 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/1833 1833Spanish Missions and the First AgricultureIn 1771, the Spanish Missionaries became the first to plant crops in the Los Angeles basin, transforming the landscape into farmland. Using a native workforce, they built open irrigation ditches from the river known as the zanjas. The workshop for this scent will take place in late May 2019.&nbsp; <img width="437" height="417" width_o="437" height_o="417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dcb976e82a70849c11ed8dcc43237981e708e27add11a7160b3aacdba9abcb5/1833_Mission-Vineyard.jpg" data-mid="42479095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/437/i/3dcb976e82a70849c11ed8dcc43237981e708e27add11a7160b3aacdba9abcb5/1833_Mission-Vineyard.jpg" /> https://alamedaheartnotes.info/pre-1781 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:08:05 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/pre-1781 pre-1781The Yaangna The history of Los Angeles stretches back to the indigenous tribes who inhabited the land for thousands of years. The Gabrieleños were the original people of the Los Angeles basin, and their story constitutes a history and tradition that we can only begin to imagine today. The workshop for this scent took place on June 10th. The scent will be in display at the LA Design Festival.&nbsp; <img width="500" height="642" width_o="500" height_o="642" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/653583f8ac3f0f59b1e83a4c49dc6232891566835baaefcf98671fac8393f4d2/Pre1781_Wildflower.jpg" data-mid="44490818" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/653583f8ac3f0f59b1e83a4c49dc6232891566835baaefcf98671fac8393f4d2/Pre1781_Wildflower.jpg" /> https://alamedaheartnotes.info/In-Between Sun, 05 May 2019 22:11:09 +0000 Alameda Heart Notes https://alamedaheartnotes.info/In-Between The project: <img width="2500" height="1235" width_o="2500" height_o="1235" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9e96b4702c607522139dbc2bd0d344b4073cb3fbef053473d49aa121f3f6339/Wells_S_AA-31.jpg" data-mid="42767022" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9e96b4702c607522139dbc2bd0d344b4073cb3fbef053473d49aa121f3f6339/Wells_S_AA-31.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" 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width_o="500" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eef75de2b53ca07cbed7b4d9e5ca926031335b6e115e32cc9eb18669e2b597d2/burlap.jpg" data-mid="42858981" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/eef75de2b53ca07cbed7b4d9e5ca926031335b6e115e32cc9eb18669e2b597d2/burlap.jpg" /> <img width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4187f9ecc62912a3fddf1794e930a82f3799333c10ee6e644300c224128613bc/mud.jpg" data-mid="42766984" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/4187f9ecc62912a3fddf1794e930a82f3799333c10ee6e644300c224128613bc/mud.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="1124" width_o="750" height_o="1124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9098d655d35609a35ddc0a156f06f62b39444a1d4b0608577beaa3e7d0e311c/tomato.jpg" data-mid="42858948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/c9098d655d35609a35ddc0a156f06f62b39444a1d4b0608577beaa3e7d0e311c/tomato.jpg" /> <img width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44e2773221eaffed116a66e1c81efcbc0327b260cbf14c014bbbc4a075fcc644/horse.jpg" data-mid="42766979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/44e2773221eaffed116a66e1c81efcbc0327b260cbf14c014bbbc4a075fcc644/horse.jpg" /> Whether natural, related to the local flora and fauna, or artificial, in the sense of revealing the presence and activities of man, odour constitutes an essential component of the character of a place. There really are smellscapes. The moment you get off an airplane, Korea smells of kimchi (pickled cabbage with garlic and hot pepper), Tahiti smells of its indigenous gardenias, Dakar smells of dried fish: for natives or frequent visitors, this guarantees an emotional response of the “Proustian experience” variety; for newcomers, it results in a more or less pleasant shock because of its unfamiliarity.&nbsp; Almost everything still remains to be understood in this area... A whole segment of a society’s imaginative world is revealed in the odour of its environment. -Jean-Robert Pitte, 1998 The heart notes, or middle notes, of a fragrance are the primary notes that define the way a scent is described and categorized. The heart notes generally assert themselves in the first 10 to 20 minutes of wear as the top notes fade, and they make up the strongest impression of the scent. - Scent Bar Glossary ALAMEDA HEART NOTES The site of ROW DTLA has a long and rich history whose layers are concealed today through the vast asphalt parking lots, bustling markets, and recently adapted American Apparel headquarters. As landscape architects and designers, we are interested in the relationship between landscape as it relates to memory, and what the history of a site might reveal. Through this exploration, we hope to distill the cultural narratives and forgotten ephemera embedded in this ever evolving site. We have invited a few people who have personal or family connections to the site in its earlier manifestations to join us in a series of workshops at the Institute for Art and Olfaction (IAO) in Chinatown prior to LA Design Week. These folks may have worked for American Apparel or in the preceding food markets or railways. There may be someone who has family that owned or worked in the early orchards or farmlands there or they may be historians. Through research, conversation and collaboration we seek to identify and extract both the tangible and intangible elements related to particular moments in time and capture it in the creation of a unique series of scents under the guidance of the experts at IAO. These scents are meant to evoke discrete segments of the site's history - manufacturing, rail yard, orchard, or other aspects we will uncover in our research. We will have SALT team members at the Block Party who will be in custom aprons, or some other distinctive clothing element, who will each have one of the unique scents we have created with the workshop group. They will have small cards with a brief narrative about the particular segment of history attached to the particular scent. The staff will offer to spray the card and hand them to attendees through the evening. The research: SALT Landscape Architects would like to thank the Institute for Art and Olfaction, the LA Design Festival team, the librarians at the Downtown Central Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, our fantastic photographer Michael Wells, and all of our workshop participants. If you are interested in learning more about the history of Los Angeles, here are a few of the remarkable resources we uncovered: <img width="500" height="574" width_o="500" height_o="574" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cbb231895d2b86bd139624c1c32c1e23509e67d5cc6c3666f3ed9b643623ab2/orange-dream-copy.png" data-mid="42773048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/9cbb231895d2b86bd139624c1c32c1e23509e67d5cc6c3666f3ed9b643623ab2/orange-dream-copy.png" /> <img width="500" height="475" width_o="500" height_o="475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef2df5c97ba5e68433ae8603db33008ac6825c540c46430a912ea28f29fcb708/cowsto-copy.png" data-mid="42773067" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/ef2df5c97ba5e68433ae8603db33008ac6825c540c46430a912ea28f29fcb708/cowsto-copy.png" /> <img width="750" height="667" width_o="750" height_o="667" 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