Project by Tove Grimstad Bang, Harsh Kakroo, Federico Landorno and Boning Li
Abstract The soundscapes of environments of urban transportation
means are oftentimes overlooked by frequent visitors.
This paper aims to bring a broadened acoustic awareness
to one such environment, namely the Stockholm metro
and adjacent urban soundscape. While aiming to provide
a sensitizing experience, users are invited to move
through a small scale physical model of the Stockholm
metro and urban environment, made available by the use
of a motion capture system, and experience its
surrounding present and imagined future sounds. With
the larger goal of improving the sonic interaction
experience, particularly in regards to the future
soundscape, the choice of sounds was continuously
iterated and discussed with a focus on their added value
and mapping of physical dimensions to auditory ones.
Through preference estimation with one test participant,
an urban planner and public transport enthusiast, the
model did bring acoustic awareness as intended.
However, with the present and future sound being rather
similar, the future rendering could have benefitted from
using sounds less conforming to the present soundscape.