Descripción del proyecto
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¿Cómo puede la interacción con el sonido ayudar a cambiar la forma en la que entendemos las ciudades? Para responder a esta pregunta, el proyecto SONCITIES, financiado con fondos europeos, reúne a teóricos y artistas del sonido, sociólogos urbanos, arquitectos y diseñadores para concebir un nuevo marco de urbanismo sonoro que pueda corregir el descuido en lo que respecta al sonido en la arquitectura y el diseño urbano. El primer paso consistirá en llevar a cabo un estudio etnográfico con los residentes y las comunidades urbanas a fin de entender la forma en que las personas experimentan y conforman los paisajes sonoros urbanos. El siguiente paso supondrá crear un laboratorio móvil de sonidos urbanos que se desplazará a diferentes ciudades para colaborar con arquitectos y diseñadores locales en aras de generar nuevos modos sonoros de análisis urbano. Por último, el proyecto desarrollará nuevos modos sonoros de diseño urbano en el contexto de semanas del diseño, exposiciones públicas e intervenciones creativas en ciudades.
Objetivo
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 GrantInstitución de acogida
OX1 2JD Oxford
Reino Unido