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Sonic inquiry in urban research: advancing policy analysis and design through sound planning tools

Project description

Time to tune into your city

What does your city sound like? The EU-funded SONINURB project will show how the investigation of sonic environment can support and influence policy design. It will also explain how the use of urban sound installations and sonic intervention can promote social inclusion and sustainable local development. The project will study the sonic environment that contributes to giving a special atmosphere to every location. As such, it directly impacts the quality of the urban environment in the sense that it can either attract people or drive them away or make them feel comfortable or under threat. The project will also focus on the social and political implications, especially in regards to vulnerable areas facing critical urban issues.

Objective

The sonic environment constantly surrounds us, and strongly contributes to give a special atmosphere to every location, a particular ‘sense of the place’, which directly influences the quality of urban environment. This is because atmosphere has the capability to attract or repulse people, to make them feel comfortable or uncomfortable, secure or unsecure: it represents the immaterial framework of the living environment and perfectly reflects the effects of every urban transformation. In particular, urban atmosphere drives people’s experience of everyday public space, and its social and political implications can be finely investigated through sound, especially in regards to those vulnerable areas dealing with critical urban issues (such as depopulation, segregation, transformation and expiration of local identities and intangible cultural heritages), and to those vulnerable citizens who experience social, racial, religious, and gender issues.
Is it possible to better acknowledge –and contribute to improve– the atmosphere of a vulnerable urban area undergoing spatial and social transformation by investigating and intervene its sonic environment? What are the related political, social, and cultural implications? The action intends to advance Urban research for urban policy analysis and design by implementing a participatory and collaborative approach to urban sound design, and sound planning tools oriented to vulnerable areas. In particular, the research aims to demonstrate how the investigation of sonic environment can support policy analysis and influence policy design, and aims to explain how the use of urban sound installations and sonic intervention can promote social inclusion, and sustainable local development.

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITA IUAV DI VENEZIA
Net EU contribution

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€ 237 768,00
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SANTA CROCE TOLENTINI 191
30135 Venezia
Italy

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Region
Nord-Est Veneto Venezia
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost

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€ 237 768,00

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