Re-Negotiating Space

RNS#3 | New Soundscapes for Urban Ecologies — Co-creating the Post-Anthropocene

Space is negotiated acoustically long before it is negotiated on plans. Every soundscape is a shifting settlement between geophony, biophony and anthrophony—and wherever human populations shrink, these proportions begin to move. Listening thus becomes an instrument of re-negotiation: it makes audible who claims space, who withdraws, and who returns. Which new narratives emerge from these changing balances, and how might we co-create the soundscapes of a post-anthropocene urbanity?

Dialogue Partners:

Nicola Schößler, Vienna. Actress and Alexander Technique teacher working across theatre, film and her own performance projects, with a focus on participatory formats in public space that address perception and change.

Arne Gieshoff, Darmstadt. Composer working across acoustic and electronic music, music theatre and site-specific participatory formats, with a focus on uncovering the sonic, historical and material layers of concrete places.

Emma Baumhofer, Lugano. Transdisciplinary designer and researcher combining site-specific sound, data and storytelling to explore urban ecologies and more-than-human relationships, with a focus on cultivating attention, participation and care.

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