Video No. 16 - Osmodrama at Martin Gropius Bau 2018

Empirical findings suggested that Osmodrama, besides its artistic impact, also has a potential therapeutic effect - at least with anosmia (loss of smell) and depression.
Therefore Smeller 2.0 and Osmodrama were subject of a scientifically controlled, evidence-based study, during the regular exhibition at Gropius Bau 2018.
(Interdisciplinary Center for Smell and Taste at the university clinic in Dresden (Prof. Dr. Thomas Hummel) in cooperation with the ENT-clinic of the Charité Berlin (Prof. Dr. Florian Uecker) and with the ENT-Center Kudamm in Berlin (Prof. Dr. Önder Göktas).
Subject to the research was the effect of Osmodrama via Smeller 2.0 on individuals with
symptoms of anosmia, respectively “the effect of smell-training among natural everyday conditions on the sense of smell and on the olfactory capacities”. The recurrently presented Synosmy "Quarter Autocomplete - Evolution in 12 Minutes" served as the training system under the regular performance conditions designed for the exhibition.
The evidence-based study on the potential therapeutic effects of Osmodrama on individuals with depression - empirical data are again shedding light ahead here - has been withheld and will be conducted separately.
The study spanned over four weeks, during which the test subjects experienced the Osmodrama “Quarter Autocomplete” as regular visitors with season tickets for a duration of 30 to 60 minutes per day. These subjects underwent in-depth medical-scientific examinations and screening tests before, during and after this period.
The results of the study are exciting insofar as 44% of the patients showed a clinically significant improvement in the sense of smell.
This effect is not to be confused with aromatherapy.
Other studies are in preparation, in which - also inspired by empirical data - further beneficial effects of Osmodrama on the brain will be investigated:
- Increase of the intelligence of children
- Measurable growth of brain mass
- Improvement of several symptoms of dementia
- Improvement of several symptoms in Alzheimer's
All of these findings are surprising neurological byproducts of an artistic endeavour, that aimed at creating technical conditions for the development and establishment of an unprecedented time-based art of “storytelling” with distinct scent-sequences in fast motion.
Wolfgang Georgsdorf
Berlin, December 2018
Edited by
Kasper Helml
Footage preselections and rough cut drafts by
Sarika Siraj
Camera
Kaspar Helml
Sarika Siraj
Visitors interviewed by
Cara Enders
Lucienne Kanne
Sophie Himmler
Sarika Siraj
Editorial assistance
Alexander Wilm
Emilia Vogt
Thanks to
Livius Härer
Ruven Hener
Peter Macky
Robert Schmitz-Michels
Marc Schrögendorfer
Ulrich Pöhler
Jessica Müller-Feist
Geza Schön
Felix Weiser
Dorotha Marcinkiewicz
For supporting Osmodrama 2019
Special thanks to the Sponsors of Osmodrama 2019
Jaeger Ausbau
MDT-tex
IFF
La Biosthetique
Studio Livius
Full credits of Osmodrama 2019:
osmodrama.com/credits/
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Wolfgang Georgsdorf