A field is to play - Enacting a social image of the soundscape

Paolo Patelli (1)

1 Department of Architecture and Planning

This paper presents a project at the interface of art intervention, design research and urban studies. Art critics, historians and artists have enlightened since the 1990s a possibility for public art to be intended as localized process design, acting through an engagement with publics. We see such a practice relevant to design research - as it is related to design methods and processes - and to urban studies - as it engages the built environment and the local community. The project, realized by Alessandro Contini, Paolo Patelli, Danila Pellicani with Abigail Napp in Mazama, WA, consisted of a multimedia local interaction that resulted in the creation of an archive of crowd-sourced interviews and sound recordings, and of an interactive ambient installation, expressive of the mental image of the soundscape.

Mots clés: public art; soundscape; relational aesthetics; digital media; crowdsourcing

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Sociologie

Paolo Patelli. A field is to play - Enacting a social image of the soundscape. Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012, Sep 2012, Montreal, Canada. pp.241-246. ⟨halshs-00745529⟩