DATE | 9 July - 2 October

LOCATION | WORKshop, Concourse Level, 80 Bloor Street West

INFORMATION | http://workshoptoronto.com/index.php

DESCRIPTION | Designed by the Toronto architecture firm Khoury Levit Fong, Scentscapes: Immersive Environments Inspired by Xi’an, will feature drawings of a public garden currently under construction in one of China’s ancient capitals, Xi’an, along with a site-specific installation titled Scent Squadron. The new garden in Xi’an was conceived to delight all the senses while favoring smell. Commissioned for the 2011 Xi’an World Horticultural Exposition, the garden was designed by Dr. Rodolphe el-Khoury, professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, with graduate students Drew Adams, James Dixon, and Fadi Masoud. The garden’s terraced pine groves and array of planting, including beds of rosemary and thyme, will offer a unique olfactory world. Natural fragrances will be complemented by the diffusion of plant extracts from motion, sensor-activated, glowing poles. The Xi’an Scent Garden promises to be both spectacular and intimate, offering a kind of olfactory map of China.