Links

This page is to be developed as a resource for people interested in making connections with others working in the filed of sensory urbanism. It is possible to link to people, projects, companies, businesses, journals etc. If you would like a link added to this page please email the link to Mags Adams. If you would like to make a link from your website to this site please make the link to http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/index.htm.

British Industrial Ruins: http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/british_industrial_ruins/

CONSERT: The Concordia Sensoria Research Team (CONSERT) has been carrying out research on the cultural construction of the senses since 1988.

Dog Rose Trust: The Dog Rose Trust is an innovative charity which works to make all environments accessible to people with visual and other sensory impairments. The Trust is committed to the use of Universal and Inclusive Design and Communication and the Multi-Sensory design.

Exploring solutions to 'graffiti' in Newcastle upon Tyne: this work brings together innovative ideas from both the authorities and graffiti writers themselves.

Mapping Tranquillity: This research was commissioned to develop a methodology that was robust and could support a range of activities, with land-use and landscape planning foremost amongst them.

Mywalks: 'Mywalks' is about (re-)engaging with our immediate urban, day-to-day, city, country, local, taken-for-granted environments and geographies through the medium of photography and audiography.

Positive Soundscape Project: this project aims to acknowledge the relevance of positive soundscapes, to move away from a focus on negative noise and to identify a means whereby the concept of positive soundscapes can effectively be incorporated into planning.

Sensory Trust: The Sensory Trust promotes and implements an inclusive approach to design and management of outdoor space, richer connections between people and place and equality of access for all people, regardless of age, disability or background.

Sonic Memorial Project: raises some interesting methodological issues in relation to memory, bereavement and soundscapes.

Sonic Postcards: Sonic Postcards is a unique and innovative national education programme which enables pupils from across the UK to explore and compare their local sound environments through the composition and exchange - via the internet - of sound postcards with other schools.

SoundTransit: SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography.

Spaces of Dereliction: Industrial Ruins in the UK : http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/industrial_ruins/

The Senses and Society: This pioneering journal provides a crucial forum for the exploration of this vital new area of inquiry - the senses in culture and society. It brings together groundbreaking work in the social sciences and incorporates cutting-edge developments in art, design and architecture. Every volume contains something for and about each of the senses, both singly and in all sorts of novel configurations.

Walkwalkwalk: an archaeology of the familiar and forgotten is a collaborative live art project that takes walking routes and routines as a starting point for re-exploring the overlooked spaces of cities and their fringe.