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Canadian Centre for Architecture Presents Sense of the CityFrom October 26, 2005 to September 10, 2006, the Canadian Centre for Architecture presents Sense of the City, a major exhibition dedicated to the theme of urban phenomena and perceptions which have traditionally been ignored, repressed or maligned.
Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a rethinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life - thus advancing a new spectrum of experience and engagement.
"The most banal and ubiquitous phenomena," remarked curator and CCA director designate Mirko Zardini, "like asphalt, the second crust of the earth, cacophonies of everyday sounds and smells, competing light effects, manipulation of temperature and climate, heat and cold, the junk and graffiti that disfigure buildings and streets, as well as the subtle, mostly hidden signs of regeneration in the urban environment, will be presented through artefacts and images that collectively suggest the rich array of urban experience and behaviours lying just beyond traditional interpretations of the city."
The communicative and symbolic character of the contemporary city has until now resided primarily in visual phenomena.
Smell has been systematically erased from the urban
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