M Dougherty

Teaching

I teach scent to designers, scientists, students and anyone curious, mostly by putting materials under their noses.

Guest lectures

  • 2025Artist Talk: Research-Driven Art Practice, Rhode Island School of Design
  • 2023Olfactory Suggestion, Experimental Psychology: Perception, Boston University
  • 2023The Business of Creating, Managing Visual Arts, Boston University
  • 2022Introduction to Working with Scent, Design Lab, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2021Growing Your Work: Biomaterials in Creative Forms, School of Form, SWPS University, Warsaw
  • 2021Introduction to Working with Scent, New York University

Workshops

  • 2023Scent Mapping, Neural Systems: Functional Circuit Analysis, Boston University
  • 2023Manufacturing Scented Objects, EPIC, Boston University

Talks

  • 2026The Invisible Medium: Scent in Contemporary Art, panel, ScentXplore, New York, Nov 5 upcoming
  • 2026Artificial Olfaction or Olfactory Intelligence?, panel, 1014, New York
  • 2025Sensory Symphony Symposium, moderator, with Dr. Andreas Keller, Miriam Songster and M. Leona Godin, online
  • 2024Survey of Olfactory Illusions, Experimental Scent Summit, Lisbon
  • 2023Scentience: A Collection of Olfactory Expressions, Boston University
  • 2022Odor Organ: Device Design for Olfactory Education, OSMOCOSM
  • 2021Creating with Scent, OSMOCOSM
  • 2021Meet a Nose, Institute for Art and Olfaction

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