Projektbeschreibung
Endlich der Stadt zuhören
Kann man die Stadt über Geräusche und Klang anders begreifen? Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, bringt das EU-finanzierte Projekt SONCITIES Vertreterinnen und Vertreter aus Klangtheorie und Klangkunst, Stadtsoziologie, Architektur und Design zusammen. Gemeinsam arbeiten sie an einem neuen Konzept eines akustischen Urbanismus, das der Vernachlässigung des Klangs in Architektur und Stadtgestaltung ein Ende setzt. Im ersten Schritt sollen Stadtbewohner und -gesellschaften ethnografisch betrachtet werden, um so herauszufinden, wie Menschen städtische Klangräume erleben und selbst formen. Danach wird ein mobiles urbanes Klanglabor entstehen, das auf einer Tour durch verschiedene Städte in Zusammenarbeit mit Architektinnen und Architekten sowie Designerinnen und Designern vor Ort neue Klangmodi für Stadtanalysen hervorbringt. Abschließend wird das Projekt im Kontext von Designwochen, öffentlichen Ausstellungen und kreativen Interventionen in einzelnen Städten neue Klangmodi für die Stadtgestaltung entwickeln.
Ziel
Architecture and urban design, disciplines heavily rooted in visual epistemologies, have long neglected sound, or else treated it in very limited ways: as a physical quantity that can be modelled and controlled; or else as noise, something to be reduced or eliminated. The neglect of sound on the part of the built environment professions has been damaging for cities, which suffer from poor acoustic design. As cities come under increasing scrutiny in a rapidly urbanising world, it is time to turn attention to one of the most pervasive—yet most neglected—aspects of urban life: how cities sound; how the experience of urban soundscapes is differentiated along social and cultural lines; and how to harness the creative potential of sound to build healthier, more inclusive, more sustainable cities. SONCITIES will bring together sound theorists, urban sociologists, architects, urban designers and sound artists to develop the conceptual framework of sonic urbanism: a new acoustic paradigm for cities. First, we will conduct unprecedented ethnographic research with urban residents and communities, aiming to discover how people experience and shape urban soundscapes in their everyday lives. On this basis we will form a mobile urban sound laboratory to generate new sonic modes of urban analysis in dialogue with built environment practitioners internationally. Finally, we will develop new sonic modes of urban design in the context of Design Weeks, public exhibitions, and creative sonic interventions in cities: projects that will serve as prototypes for sonic urbanism. SONCITIES is led by a sound theorist and sound art practitioner at Oxford University with a proven record of collaboration with architects and urbanists. Through SONCITIES, sound will be placed at the forefront of creative practice in architecture and urban design, and sonic urbanism will emerge as an innovative theoretical paradigm that fundamentally transforms how cities are understood, designed and experienced.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantGastgebende Einrichtung
OX1 2JD Oxford
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