Soundwalking brings together a diverse group of contemporary scholars,
artists and thinkers in one of the first comprehensive studies of
soundwalking - the practice of moving through space while carefully
listening to what it has to say - to address urgent challenges and
concerns of an environmental, ethical, social and technological nature.
Besides gaining insight into the historical development of soundwalking
as a scholarly method and artistic genre, the reader will have a chance
to learn from emerging voices concerned with this practice, of many
different backgrounds and positionalities. Soundwalking demonstrates
how attentive listening and walking might help with more careful and
responsible navigation through the complex dimensions of our shared
environments and entangled histories, often imperceptible on a
day-to-day basis. The book encourages scholars, artists, and also those
unfamiliar with the concept, to engage with it in their respective
fields and subjects of interest as an interdisciplinary method of
critical inquiry and a creative mode of communication.
This book inspires readers to discover anew the potential of walking and
listening, and will be of interest to students, researchers and
practitioners in the areas of studies directly concerned with sound and
beyond, including environmental humanities, arts, design, landscape
architecture, media, and cultural studies.
Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
