02010nas a2200229   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001300043653002000056653001600076653002400092653001600116653001000132100001700142700002600159245008300185856015400268300001200422490000700434520131900441022002001760                                       d10aIstanbul10aSensory studies10aExhibitions10aintangible heritage10asmellscapes10aurban1 aLauren Davis1 aLucienne Thys-Senocak00aHeritage and scent: research and exhibition of Istanbul s changing smellscapes  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018365773&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2017.1317646&partnerID=40&md5=1fae4b47111506523055f2d0e575cc3c  a723-7410 v233 aThis paper examines heritage, and particularly intangible heritage, by concentrating on the experience of smell to explore a heritage site in Istanbul, Turkey: the Spice Market. Due to a restoration project, the site became the focus of the 2012 international workshop ‘Urban Cultural Heritage and Creative Practice,’ which aimed at documenting the existing and threatened scents of the marketplace. In 2016 a gallery exhibition, ‘Scent and the City,’ was created as part of an effort to raise awareness about how scent constitutes an important component of the heritage of place. After providing a brief overview of the marketplace’s transformations since its construction in the seventeenth century, this paper covers various methods of scent research, including scent walks, mapping, oral history interviews, and artistic performances, and illustrates how the smellscapes of this historic, and now touristic, quarter of Istanbul are changing. By bringing a sensory approach to this important heritage site in Istanbul we demonstrate how an embodied approach, which forefronts scent as intangible heritage and a primary modality, can serve as a catalyst for individuals and communities to access their memories, emotions, and values and increase awareness of the role scent plays in defining locality.  a13527258 (ISSN)