Madrid Soundscape Map: listening and identity_ MADLIST

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on a research work in progress, Soundscape Map of Madrid: Identity and Listening, an interactive and accessible online map-based system. This research aims to build an informal digital space of situations, actions, experiences, listening, and physical data capable of highlighting the importance of sound in everyday life in the city center of Madrid. This multi-layered map is a place for local people, artists, researchers, urban planners, and municipalities to work together, as well as to provide collective knowledge about sound in the environment we live in and to enhance collaborative design for sustainable and creative environments. The research aims to explore the identity of places based on listening as generous listening: listening to our body, the collective body, and the sound environment in an open process of exploration/experimentation with a hybrid methodology and several tools: informal meeting with citizen, interviews, storytelling, soundwalk, digital map, recording data collections.