I’m pleased to share “A Pocket Guide to Soundwalking”, my essay on soundwalking envisioned especially for the newcomers to this method, such as architects, city planners and policy makers, yet also for everyone interested in learning how it is a soundwalk, its main purposes and how it can be designed and performed. This essay has Read more about A Pocket Guide to Soundwalking[…]
On April 28, we celebrated the International Noise Awareness Day 2017, by means of a group soundwalk in the Reuterkiez in Berlin. The International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) was founded by the Center for Hearing and Communication in 1996 to encourage people to do something about bothersome noise in the places where they work, live, Read more about Soundwalking in the Reuterkiez![…]
Welcome to the Hush City app! With this free app, you are an active part of a citizen science research project to map and evaluate quietness in cities. Our cities are becoming noisier by the hour. Only in Europe, over 125 million people are affected by noise pollution from traffic every year, and apparently, quietness is becoming a luxury Read more about Hush City: the app to map and find quietness in cities![…]
This year I attended the Invisible Places Conference. And, yes, it was great! Invisible Places. Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place is a triennial* conference, which was kicked off in 2014 in Viseu, Portugal. The 2017 edition took place in the amazing venue of Ponta Delgada on April 7-9, at the University of the Azores Read more about Invisible Places 2017[…]
We are delighted to kick off the project today in the Reuterkiez. Join us for the public presentation, which will take place at 7pm at : Stadtteilbüro Reuterkiez / Nachbarschaftsheim Neukölln e.V. Campus Rütli Rütlistraße 1-3 (Eingang Weserstraße, Manege 1. OG) 12045 Berlin Press Release Letter of information Pressemitteilung Informationsschreiben (C) ANTONELLA RADICCHI 2017 Project Read more about Public presentation of the project in the Reuterkiez: March 9th, 2017 at 7pm![…]
Firenze Sound Map is the tender sound map of the city of Firenze in Italy. It was born in 2009 as an output of my doctoral studies in Sensuous Urbanism and Soundscape Studies and it has become a collective sound map through the spontaneous and generous participation of the Florentine population, city users and tourists. Read more about A Refreshed Look for Firenze Sound Map![…]
The INTER-NOISE 2016 Satellites took place in Berlin on August 25-26 at the DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V in the frame of the “Towards a Quieter Future” 45th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (INTER-NOISE 2016) organized in Hamburg on August 21-24 by the German Acoustical Society in cooperation with Hamburg University Read more about INTER-NOISE 2016 Satellites in Berlin: Excursion to real life examples of Berlin’s Noise Action Plan[…]
As anticipated in the previous post, in the frame of the Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes research project I will be testing an experimental methodology based on the “open source soundscape” approach for the analyses, assessment and planning of urban quiet areas at the local scale in Berlin. A citizens-driven pilot study will be developed in the Read more about A tentative state of the art of applications for crowdsourced noise- & sound maps[…]
Today, I am happy to launch my first academic blog in the frame of the appointment I started a TU Berlin in April as an IPODI-Marie Curie Fellow. The principal aim consists in keeping record of my post doc research progress and related side activities, however I hope it will not be just adds-on to Read more about Here we are: my first months at TU Berlin & the setting up of the pilot study[…]