2019-01-25 - 02:00 PM / Rich Mix, London, England
Part of Planning 2052 (9:00 AM - 8:00 PM), Oslo Architecture Triennale
Led by Brandon LaBelle
How might an expanded understanding of acoustics contribute to questioning the future of urban planning? Are there critical routes to be found by way of a social acoustics, which can foster understandings of shared space and degrowth? Might we consider sound as a resource for orientating us toward collaborations with the ephemeral and energetic matters of the built environment? This workshop will lead to reflections on our experiences of hearing and being heard, silence and noise, and in what way sound may be utilized to enable a compassionate ethics as well as forms of place making.
Sounds pass between and around us to condition the interactions and conversations of daily life with the potential of compassion and attunement as well as disruption and intrusion. As such, sounds often give forceful animation to the social and material realities surrounding us, relating us to the unseen and the temporal, the intersubjective and the nonhuman alike. Sounds are therefore dynamically relational, affording gestures of care and attention that may create an important space for the excluded and the marginal. This may be extended to recognize how listening is an everyday practice shaping the ways in which friends and strangers may meet, and acts of hospitality as well as disagreement can occur.
http://oslotriennale.no/en/events/-2
Bibliography:
Sonic Experience, Jean-Francois Augoyard & Henri Torgue
The Tone of our Times, Frances Dyson
Noise Design, Björn Hellström
Acoustic Territories, Brandon LaBelle
Experimental Practice, Dimitris Papadopoulos
Experiencing Architecture, Steen Eiler Rasmussen