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Reimagining climate futures through scent, story, and city streets
There's a growing recognition in futures thinking that the greatest barrier to climate action isn't a lack of information; it's a lack of imagination. People struggle to ...
The path to Suzanne's current work has been a winding one. Over a decade of communicating climate and sustainability, a career as a performance storyteller, and research into the smells of ancient Pompeii using urban walking methods during a degree in Classics, all fed into what eventually became her senstoryscapes methodology.
What emerged is an approach that brings climate futures to life through embodied, sensory walkshops in the cities where participants live. We spoke with her about her Walk the Futures research project, about what it means to smell and taste the future, what ordinary people discover when they step into it, and what she hopes a city like Innsbruck, where she is based, might still become.
Posted on: 05/05/2026
