TY - JOUR
T1 - Recycling traffic noise
T2 - transforming sonic automobilities for revalue and well being
AU - Pink, Sarah
AU - Lacey, Jordan
AU - Harvey, Lawrence
AU - Sumartojo, Shanti
AU - Duque, Melisa
AU - Moore, Stephan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Transurban Innovation Grant in partnership with RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. This research was funded through a Transurban Innovation Grant in partnership with RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The authors also thank the wider research team and all of the people who gave their time and enthusiasm to participate in our research.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/3/4
Y1 - 2019/3/4
N2 - In this article, we advance a design anthropological approach to the ‘problem’ of urban traffic noise, through noise transformation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary collaboration between design anthropology and sound art and design, we discuss how noise transformation opens up new possibilities for the generation of wellbeing. To undertake this we interrogate the human-technology-environment configurations, improvisatory character, materiality and temporality of traffic noise and transformed sound. We argue that conceptualising noise transformation as a form of revaluing which remains open to the possibilities of human perception, offers a viable theoretical framing and practical strategy. It moreover, we suggest, offers a way forward in the face of the perennial problem of traffic noise, which has no viable technological solution.
AB - In this article, we advance a design anthropological approach to the ‘problem’ of urban traffic noise, through noise transformation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary collaboration between design anthropology and sound art and design, we discuss how noise transformation opens up new possibilities for the generation of wellbeing. To undertake this we interrogate the human-technology-environment configurations, improvisatory character, materiality and temporality of traffic noise and transformed sound. We argue that conceptualising noise transformation as a form of revaluing which remains open to the possibilities of human perception, offers a viable theoretical framing and practical strategy. It moreover, we suggest, offers a way forward in the face of the perennial problem of traffic noise, which has no viable technological solution.
KW - Traffic noise
KW - design anthropology
KW - recycling
KW - revaluing
KW - sound transformation
KW - urban noise
KW - urban parks
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U2 - 10.1080/17450101.2018.1548882
DO - 10.1080/17450101.2018.1548882
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060174528
SN - 1745-0101
VL - 14
SP - 233
EP - 249
JO - Mobilities
JF - Mobilities
IS - 2
ER -
