Description du projet
Le temps d’écouter votre ville
Comment la ville peut-elle s’appréhender différemment avec le son? Pour répondre à cette question, le projet SONCITIES, financé par l’UE, rassemble des théoriciens et des artistes du son, des sociologues urbains, des architectes et des concepteurs pour développer un nouveau cadre d’urbanisme sonore qui puisse remédier à la négligence du son dans l’architecture et la conception urbaine. La première étape consistera à mener des recherches ethnographiques auprès des résidents urbains et des communautés pour en savoir plus sur le mode de vie de ces personnes et à façonner les paysages sonores urbains. La prochaine étape consiste à former un laboratoire sonore urbain mobile qui se rendra dans différentes villes pour collaborer avec des architectes et des concepteurs locaux afin de générer de nouveaux modes d’analyse sonore des espaces urbains. Enfin, le projet développera de nouveaux modes de conception sonore de ces espaces urbains dans le cadre de semaines de la conception, d’expositions publiques et d’interventions créatives dans les villes.
Objectif
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 GrantInstitution d’accueil
OX1 2JD Oxford
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