What has the state of the world to do with our own state? The complex challenges and crisis-like conditions of our time often lead to individual and collective overload. There simply is too much. One possible recipe: Shutting down. Delimiting. Fencing.
What might make sense as an individual short-term strategy to regain one's own focus becomes a problem as a collective long-term strategy: because development needs relation and resonance. How are we in relation to ourselves? How are we in relation to our fellow human beings? How are we in relation to our home, to our planet? What are we generating from these different positions? How can we re-generate without shutting down?
With Re-Generate, we are going to explore these questions. Not in an abstract-theoretical way. Instead, we will experience them directly with our own energies, senses and bodies. Re-Generate is an experiment, just like our life is an even bigger experiment.
It will take your courage, your perseverance, and your confidence.
Pretty much what we need in these days, too.
The fusion of multiple sensory experiences is meant to create a momentum to get in touch with yourself, each other and the world.
Photo Credits: House of Beautiful Business
From a young age, Sebastian Jautschus has been moving in the world of music. Whether as a sound director at audio branding agency why do birds, as a podcast producer, a film music composer, a singer-songwriter, a hip hop and pop producer, a playlist curator or simply at the piano - his goal is to tell stories and communicate emotions through sound.
"Right from the start, I found the challenge to evoke a sense of connection through music really intriguing. It is such an obvious and desired outcome for any piece of music, but how does it actually work? How does connection emerge? How is it built? How does the concept come to life? When I get into a state of flow, my memory gets a little blurry. After an initial meeting where we discussed tonality and descriptive words, I just remember sitting straight down at the piano at home and recording a twelve-minute-long freestyle that would later become the main theme for the audio landscape.
There were of course a few challenges in the process, too. One thing that was trickier than expected, was creating the one simple note you hear in the beginning. The challenge was to create a simple sound that was not too meditation-like, but still interesting. But after figuring that one out and getting the piano theme to a place I liked, the rest all came together almost on its own. I think the contrast of how one feels at the beginning of the piece, to how that feeling changes over the course of the half hour is a fascinating and beautiful experience."
LIMEN creates fragrances and olfactory experiences based on the digital. Using data analyses, AI and the expertise of our perfumers, LIMEN enriches online interactions and expands the digital world through the sense of smell. The two founders, Diletta Tonatto and Michele Tiberio, believe that combining the sense of smell with the digital can represent a unique tool to fill the experiential and emotional incompleteness we sometimes experience in the online world. The digital experience, until now has been mediated by devices consisting of a screen and a series of interfaces: initially, the feedback that came from the digital world were based solely on sound and images that flowed on the screen, LIMEN is going to expand the perception of the digital world through the sense of smell.
This experiential perfume for TheDive "Re-generate" reflects and provides a space to engage with being in between, ambiguity is presented and dualism of existence challenged. Attraction and repulsion are simultaneously activated; the human and animal are vis a vis and represented by woods, humidity, earth, animal notes where it all alludes to a hunt in the forest. Then a drop of sweat, fear perhaps? Adrenaline? Passion and love alternate with ratio and human ambition leaning towards power and control. These are felt in the heart of the perfume, where amber meets metal.
Diletta Tonatto is a nose and sociology researcher, creative director of TONATTO PROFUMI and co-founder of LIMEN DIGITAL. Her work and research interest are focused on the sense of smell in today’s society. Living perfumes as a liminal experience, a link between past, present and future. Diletta is fascinated by the silent but emotional and powerful stories emerging from the volatile fragrance molecules in their explosion of reminiscence. Winner of the artistic perfumery award (cafleurebon 2016,2018, re-humanism 2019 with Tiberio), her work meets art and design to create modern olfactory and ritual portraits as antidotes to the stress of everyday life. Her work with Tiberio, at Limen Digital provides a new, innovative and groundbreaking approach, one that aims at entering the metaverse with scent, never abandoning the human connection.
Michele Tiberio is the co-founder of LIMEN DIGITAL, a designer and lecturer in User Experience and design research and an artist. He started his career in London working as UX and strategy designer for start-ups in the technology and sustainability field. Tiberio conceives his design practice as a way to bridge the gap between technology and the user, in order to achieve the biggest impact for people, businesses and the environment. Together with Diletta Tonatto he won the Re:Humanism Art Prize (2019) with “Me, My scent”, an experimental project that lead to the creation of the first perfume of a digital identity. Tiberio explored the question: “If you could smell the perfume of your digital identity, would you recognize yourself?”. He is currently focusing on the future of interaction on the internet and in the metaverse, he envisions a future where people are not at the mercy of technology, and digital interactions are more human.