Sounding Urban Places - Listening to the Binckhorst
Sounding Urban Places (2024-25) is an interdisciplinary arts-based research project that explores the experience of sound in urban environments in transformation. The research is carried out in the mining city of Kiruna in the very north of Sweden, and in the Binckhorst area in the Hague. Sounding Urban Places invites inhabitants to listen to their living or working environments and share their experiences through recordings or in interviews.
Justin Bennett, Irene Ruiperez Canales, and Renate Zentschnig will present the preliminary results of the research project, consisting of an audio paper, an online sound map, audio routes, and an educational package for secondary schools to work with environmental sound. Their presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion, moderated by lector Paul Craenen, and with Sabrina Lindemann from the citizen platform I'm Binck and Marcel Cobussen, professor of auditory culture at Leiden University.
Participants
Paul Craenen - Universiteit Leiden
I’m Binck / Sabrina Lindermann
Project links
Sounding Urban Places - Interdisciplinary Research Project
Sound Up – Sounding Urban Places
Sound Up is a collaboration between Luleå University of Technology, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, Leiden University, Soundtrackcity, I'm Binck, and Kluster. The research project takes place in the framework of Horizon 2020 and JPI Urban Europe and is co-funded by Regieorgaan SIA, part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
