Mapping space through sounds and noises with digital GI Forum 2012

Fieldwork in Education : Mapping Space Through Sounds And Noises

With Digital Mobile Devices

Jérôme Staub, Eric Sanchez, Salzburg , July, 2012, the 7th AGIT 2012

Differents Teaching Situations

Background: From Soundscape to Auditory

Geographies

« I call the acoustic environment the soundscape, by which I mean the total field of sounds wherever we are “ (Schaffer 1992)

"Though Schaffer himself is a musician and composer, his terminology is heavily reliant on visual metaphors”. He replaces the term by auditory geographies.

Background: « the Thirdspace »

• Edward Soja• Graphic from Gary

Simmons on his blog: http://www.garrysimmons.org.uk/2011/05/thirdspace-and-young-peoples.html

• Experiences of Richard Bustin

http://www.garrysimmons.org.uk/2011/05/thirdspace-and-young-peoples.html




Background: Using Mobile Devices in

Education

An Exploratory Research into the Use of Geotechnology to Introduce Sound and Noise

for the Understanding of Space

Exploratory Research Questions

• Relations between sight and hearing for a cognitive approach of space?• Roles of mobile devices for fieldwork

activities?• Sound mapping is a educational detour?

Exploratory Research Objectives

• Pragmatic : producing shared knowledge for practitionners and given to them the desire of participape to a sound collection for educational situations.• Hermemeutic: Develop the use of

geolocalized sounds in educational practices.

Intervention ville de Limoges sur les nuisances sonores

Collaborative Mapping

From the most suitable tools for the fieldwork… to a unique tools

Difficult Choice of the Tools

How to Design Fieldwork Activities?

1. Sound Interpretations with Google StreetView

2. Fieldwork in Limoges

2. GPS Tracks On the Sound Map

• What are the instruments that you have the more used it to locate youself ?• What are the instruments that you have

served the more to record sounds?• In your opinion, what are the most reliable

instruments to realize this fieldwork?• In your opinion, what are the most practical

tools to realize this fieldwork?

Questionnaire About Tools Using During The

Fieldwork

Conclusion 1: Sounds as Media to Understand Spaces

Conclusion 2: Mapping Sounds, an Educational “Detour"

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