Sound Design in Noise Policy

Everyone, within their discipline — whether architecture, urban planning, environmental design or noise reduction — plays a significant role in shaping the sound of a city. Yet, a lot of work still needs to be done. How can we, as a community of sound and noise professionals, contribute to taking better control of the urban soundscape and support sound design in noise policy?


As sound experts, it’s in our DNA to “listen to” buildings, squares, streets, and landscapes — and explore how people interact with them — and to understand how this contributes to the city’s sound and identity. What are the potentials and citizen benefits of implementing this sound-aware knowledge in daily practice? And what will it take to consider and integrate this fully in noise policy? Those are just some of the questions treated.


Soundscaping is the key term.
During this
webinar, we will discuss and illustrate how we define and understand the notion of soundscaping. We invite all participants to join us for an engaging discussion at the concluding panel debate.
 

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Date: 4 December 2024

Time: 15.00 – 17.00

Form: Online Zoom

Price: Free

Language: English

If you have questions about signing up, please contact Murielle De Smedt: mds@danishsoundcluster.dk

You will meet:

Participant profile: 

Local authorities, national planning professionals, municipalities, acousticians.

Program

Description by Douglas: What is a soundscape, how is it defined? What is soundscaping? Illustrated by some examples of a range of different approaches. How do you describe a soundscape? Various objective parameters are available. Why soundscape? What can it offer, where and how?

You will meet:

Trond Maag, Founder of Urban Identity

Trond Maag is an urbanist whose practice is focused on the urban sound realm, the quality of public spaces and the development of urban areas. In cooperation with urban sound planners and sound artists, he conducted city-making projects and performed multidisciplinary research, case studies, workshops, and guided walks to support knowledge transfer on urban sound. Trond is responsible for urban sound planning at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, establishing guidelines and policies. His work on urban sound has been presented at international conferences and was awarded by the European Environmental Agency.

Douglas Manvell, Founder and CEO of DMdB

With over 30 years’ experience in the business of noise and vibration control applications and solutions, Douglas is specialized in environmental noise standardization, legislation and research. He is currently both chair of ISO/TC = International Standardization Organization Technical Committee, 43 “Acoustics” and convenor of the ISO working group on environmental noise assessment. The author of over 70 conference papers, he is also co-author of books such as “Noise Mapping in the EU” and “Uncertainty in Acoustics”. He is guest lecturer at the Danish Technical University for their Environmental Acoustics MSc module. Douglas is CEO of DMdB, a dynamic and agile consultancy providing professional services within noise and vibration control. He has followed the development of sound scaping since 2000 and seen a strong growth in research and standards over recent years.

Christer Volk, Ph.D., Senior Specialist at FORCE Technology

Christer advises clients, design and conduct listening tests, making statistical analyses for audio evaluation, listening and soundscaping purposes. He has been involved evaluating loudspeakers, headphones, mobile phones, speakerphones, hearing aids, codecs, surround sound algorithms, watermarks, car sounds and audiovisual interactions. In SenseLab we set today’s standard for audio evaluation in collaboration with universities, governmental- and industry partners.

Martin Hallberg,Creative Director at Efterklang part of AFRY

Sound designer and creative director for Efterklang helping companies to use sound strategically. Efterklang is one of the world’s largest sound agencies, with 130 engineers, designers, and technical specialists exclusively working with sound. With over 20 years of experience in audio branding and sound design, leading global projects in areas such as:

– Helping municipalities to balance out noisy city sound environments
– Helping product developing companies to make products that don’t need to beep
– Audio branding – sound concept developing to help brands be heard in the right way

Innovationskraft
When you participate in this event, your time will be used as co-financing for the Innovation Power Project, which is funded by the Danish Business Promotion Board and the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science at a standard rate. Read more about Innovationskraft  HERE

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