Participant Profiles
Seminar Series Participants
| Dr Mags Adams |
m.d.adams"at"salford.ac.uk |
| Senior Research Fellow, Acoustics Research Centre, University
of Salford |
| http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/profiles/adams/
|
| Seminars attended: One, Two, Three, Four, Five |
| I am currently co-investigator on the EPSRC funded 'The
Positive Soundscapes Project' having previously worked on 'VivaCity
2020: designing urban sustainability into city centre living'. I have
co-organised, with Simon Guy, a session at the RGS-IBG conference
2005 on 'Urban Sustainability: rethinking senses of place' and have
guest edited a special issue of Senses and Society on 'Senses and
the City' due in June 2007. I have recently published a paper in Urban
Studies entitled 'Sustainable soundscapes: noise policy and the urban
experience'. I am particularly interested in theoretical interconnections
between sustainability, urban form and individual practice as well
as sensory experience and have developed a participatory methodology
incorporating photo surveys, soundwalks and semi-structured interviews
to explore sensory experiences of urban spaces with a view to incorporating
residents' perceptions of environmental quality in 24-hour cities
into urban design decision making. |
| Michelle Addison |
Michelle.Addison"at"ncl.ac.uk |
Research Assistant, School of Geography, Politics and
Sociology,
University of Newcastle |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Yvette Taylor, Principal Investigator, and I are researching
the intersections of class and gender and how the impact of space
and place has on constructing identity. Therefore, we believe that
seminar 2 is of great interest because of the relationship between
public and private space and how different people may use buildings
in different ways. I would like to understand how different people
may use their senses differently depending on the urban environment. |
| Ms Ximena Alarcon |
XAlarcon"at"dmu.ac.uk |
| PhD student, Music, Technology and Innovation Research
Centre, De Montfort University |
| Seminars attended: One, Two |
| I am interested in developing interactivity between
soundscape and commuters, based on the dual process of "listening
and remembering" in the urban environment. This interest was
thoroughly developed in my PhD, recently completed, in which I studied
soundscape and collective memory based on the commuting experience
in the London Underground, and created, as a result, an internet-based
Interactive Sonic Environment. Developing interactivity from the experience
of listening to and remembering a common soundscape is a process that
involves awareness about the environment, but also reflects and transforms
the way that we relate to others and to ourselves in a public space.
My interest is to continue the development of this virtual environment
to stimulate the creation of sound-driven narratives involving individual
and collective experiences represented in the sonic textures of urban
daily life. ... I continue to explore different aspects of my completed
PhD research "An Interactive Sonic Environment derived from commuters'
memories of soundscape: a case study of London Underground".
Issues of public space are vital for my research, as I have created,
as a result of ethnographic work, a virtual space. I would like this
virtual space to keep the spirit of the "public", as a possession
of the individual and the rights that this involves (collective and
individual) within a privately owned, commercial urban environment.
I am interested in the boundaries of these two spaces, public and
private, and in the creation of virtual spaces where the public interest
is the priority. |
| Dr Kye Askins |
kye.askins"at"unn.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Two, Three, Four, Five |
| Lecturer in human geography, Northumbria University |
| http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/staffbiog/geog/kaskins/ |
| More broadly, my interests are 'multiculturalism in
the everyday': the ways in which difference and similarity between/across
people of diverse ethnic backgrounds play out in the banal spaces/places
of daily life, in both exclusionary as well as transformative encounters.
My previous research suggests that exploring 'sense' of place - going
beyond a visual recognition of an Other - is critical to understanding
notions of belonging in and use of particular sites, and therefore
important in thinking through how people inter/act in public spaces.
Or: the politics of sound, smell and touch!! |
| Tom Barton |
t.barton"at"rhul.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| PhD Student, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway |
| My doctoral research focuses attention on the use of
the aural sense in relation to understanding and experiencing place
and its multiple temporalities. In particular, I am looking at how
an understanding of the memorialisation of events in and through place
might be developed through the performative and representational elements
of music, including its rhythms and the notion of journeys between
places. I also have an interest in the notion of the extrasensory
or the spectral in relation to understanding urban ruins. |
| Prof Alan Beattie |
Alan.f.beattie"at"talk21.com |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| Professor (Emeritus) Hon Research Fellow, Centre for
Mobilities Research,, Lancaster University |
| Current project is to explore dance & choreography
as a metaphor, and perhaps as a model and a medium, in mobilities
research. I come to this from a very mixed background: worked as a
dancer and experimental choreographer in the early days of postmodern
dance in Britain, with a particular emphasis on performance interplay
with buildings, streets and kinetic installations; taught human ecology
to planners and architects at the Bartlett (School of Environmental
Studies) at UCL; taught, practised and researched in public health
- especially 'settings-based health promotion' (healthy cities, healthy
workplaces, health action zones, etc) - in the UK NHS and overseas,
while linked to London University, Lancaster University, Cumbria University,
Open University (etc). Interested in whether a mobilities paradigm
and concepts like taskscapes, sensescapes, e-scapes, rhythmanalysis
etc, might smuggle an embodied aesthetic into predominantly technocratic
areas of expert practice. |
| Ms Helen Bendon |
h.bendon"at"mdx.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Programme Leader Film Video & Interactive Arts,
Middlesex University |
| Website |
| Helen Bendon is a London based artist working predominantly
in video and photography. She and Jess Thom worked with the Vivacity2020
project creating new work responding to the research undertaken by
the consortium. Helen's interest in the urban environment stems from
a particular interest in the visual exploration of the relationship
between actual and psychological space. For the Vivacity2020 commission
she produced two new works for the London Architecture Biennale in
2006 and is currently working on a third piece for Urbis Manchester
in April 2007. Using as its basis the stories of local people (past
and present), this body of work looks at how histories reflect the
way we actually understand our immediate surroundings through anecdote,
tall - tales and fragmented narratives. |
| Agnieska Bielewska |
abielewska"at"hotmail.com |
| Seminars attended: Four |
| Phd Student, Department of Environmental and Geographical
Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Research focuses upon the distinctions between the space-time
paths and identities of two groups of Polish migrants to Manchester:
those arriving after World War 2 and post accession migrants. |
| Ms Vanesa Castan Broto |
V.Castan-Broto"at"surrey.ac.uk |
| PhD student, Surrey University |
| Seminars attended: One |
| I am currently working in a research project to understand
how the construction of alternative descriptions of physical phenomena
can be addressed in sustainable land use management projects. I am
particularly interested in the relationship between identity and sense
of place and how they are re-created within the accounts of the actors
participating in a planning process. The research, developed in cooperation
between the University of Surrey and Forest Research, studies the
case of RECOAL, an interdisciplinary EU 6th Framework project aiming
at developing sustainable solutions for coal ash disposal in the Western
Balkans. To understand the different narratives about the project,
I am developing qualitative research in Tuzla, a city in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Research on alternative narratives suggests that the
construction of community identities is linked to how perceived changes
on the environment are reflected within the discourses of the actors
involved in the planning process. Simultaneously, discursive expressions
of a sense of place are articulated through the frame of the community
identities. The co-construction of social identity and sense of place
influences the development of planning management alternatives for
the environmentally degraded area. |
| Dr Ralf Brand |
ralf.brand"at"manchester.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| UMARC |
| http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/staff/brand_ralf.htm |
| My interest in senses in the built environment stems
from the attempt to create a sound-map of the city where I studied.
It made me aware of the unfortunate hegemony of seeing that dominates
the shape of our built environment. Although my current work does
not directly focus on the fascinating range of sensual experiences
of a city, this issue should be a crucial component in the education
of future planners and architects which is where I see my current
role in fighting urban lookism. |
| Mr Neil Bruce |
n.s.bruce"at"pgr.salford.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Two, Three, Four, Five |
| Acoustics Research Centre, University of Salford, PhD
student on Positive Soundscapes Project |
| http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/profiles/bruce |
| My main interest is in making people more aware of the
sound environment. I am also interested in finding out what was deemed
as important stimuli in a sound environment and how people's attention
is drawn to differing sounds. This includes trying to determine aspects
of a sound environment which people perceived as having greater importance,
and why this was. Following on from this I am also interested in investigating
the cultural and social importance and influence of sound on people
and their environments. I am a supporter of the acoustic ecology movement
and feel the preservation of existing soundscapes is of great importance
for future generations. |
| Gail Burton |
Gailburton2"at"hotmail.com |
| Seminars attended: Four |
| Walkwalkwalk, London |
| http://www.walkwalkwalk.org.uk/ |
| In my collaborative art practice with walkwalkwalk (www.walkwalkwalk.org.uk)
I engage with walking as a methodology for re-examining the city.
This live-art participatory project focuses on the overlooked and
forgotten aspects of the urban environment, taking routine everyday
walks as the starting point. We employ a multi-disciplinary approach
- past collaborations/influences include musicians, film makers and
design historians. |
| Vickie Cooper |
vickie_fc"at"yahoo.co.uk |
| Seminars attended: Five |
| PhD student, Department of Sociology, MMU |
| Research focuses upon the homeless and the webs of legislation
which frame their options and activities. |
| Dr Rupert Cox |
rupert.cox"at"manchester.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Three |
| Lecturer in Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester |
| http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/socialanthropology/staff/rupert_cox.htm |
| My interests in sound and the senses are in two areas:
Firstly in sound 'portraits' as a means of constructing alternative
ethnographies of the perception of artworks. This is a project I have
recently undertaken in Japan, investigating the ways in which 16th
century landscape painting is perceived by the present day inhabitants
of the spaces portrayed. Secondly, I am interested in the possibility
of using sound recordings to analyse and reconstruct the memories
of trauma and protest among communities in the vicinity of military
airbases. This is a prospective project aiming to build on extensive
epidemiological data about the effects of aircraft noise on the villagers
who live beside the airbase at Kadena on Okinawa. |
| Dr Anne Cronin |
a.cronin"at"lancaster.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| Sociology Dept, Lancaster University |
| Research focuses upon the outdoor advertising industry
and cities in the UK. In the paper I presented to the seminar series,
I explored the temporalities and rhythms of advertising in urban space.
Considerable attention has been paid to the textual content of advertisements
and the hyper-abundant branding strategies at play in contemporary
urban spaces (as well as place marketing or urban branding to attract
tourists or inward investment). But very little work has focused on
the ways in which the visual register of advertising interfaces with
other senses or bodily engagements with space. Nor has there been
an analysis of the synergies between urban processes and the advertising
industry, such as the relationship between urban regeneration and
decay, and the siting, construction and lifecycle of advertising structures
such as billboards. This paper explores how outdoor advertising both
articulates and reorients relationships between the senses, embodiment,
and the experience of temporality in contemporary urban spaces. |
| Dr Monica Degen |
Monica.Degen"at"brunel.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Four, Five |
| Lecturer in Sociology, Brunel University |
| http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sssl/ssslstaff/commStaff/MonicaDegen |
| Monica Degen's research examines the transformation
of urban space and life in late modernity and the ways in which social
interactions are framed through the sensuous geographies of place.
She is particularly interested in analysing the relation between the
senses, power, everyday practices and material culture in defining
the cultural politics of place. Her work has so far focused on the
redevelopment of Barcelona, Manchester and Milton Keynes. |
| Mr Max Dixon |
Max.Dixon"at"london.gov.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Strategy Adviser, Noise, GLA |
| |
| As a town planner and environmental policy analyst,
it has become increasingly clear how human sensory perceptions inter-relate.
If urban regeneration is to work effectively for people at more levels,
it needs to be informed by analysis that goes beyond the immediate
problem, and addresses human needs in positive multi-sensorial ways. |
| Dr John Drever |
j.drever"at"gold.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Lecturer in Composition, Goldsmiths, University of London |
| http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/research/j-drever.php |
| John is a sonic artist with a particular concern for
creatively engaging with environmental sound and vocal utterance.
Much of his work is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and devised
for presentation in specific sites, most recently on Goodwin Sands
and Orford Ness. He has composed sound works on urban environments,
most notably Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Exeter and Glasgow. He is a co-founder
and chair of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community (a regional branch
of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology) and an elected director of
Sonic Arts Network. |
| Dr James Evans |
j.evans.2"at"bham.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Lecturer, GEES, University of Birmingham |
| http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/people/index.asp?ID=398#398 |
| I am interested in how human and non-human elements
of the urban experience intersect, and the methodologies that can
be used to capture these experiences. I am currently working on research
that explores rhythmanalysis and the city, and an ESRC funded project
'Rescue Geographies: developing methods for public geographies', both
with Phil Jones from the University of Birmingham. |
| Dr Wael Salah Fahmi |
|
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Associate Professor of Urbanism, Helwan University,
Egypt |
| Through my virtual studio Urban Design Experimental
Research Studio (UDERS), I explore deconstructive experimentation
within urban spaces, postmodern spatiality and representation of city
imaging, employing collages, architectural diagrams, virtual installations,
visual semiotics, and spatial narratives. In addition I am interested
in deconstruction of architectural discourse as a postmodern pedagogical
strategy for critical analysis of spatiality, techniques of representation
and city reading/mapping. Such approach explores the cognitive implications
of digital technology within architectural education on the development
of individual spatial knowledge capacities, adopting deconstructive
experimentation with hybrid interfaces of urban games, images, signs
and simulacra, and sequences of digital photo images and video stills
and documentaries. |
| Emily Falconer |
E.Falconer"at"mmu.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| PhD student, Department of Environment and Geographical
Sciences, MMU |
| Current research explores the gendered spatial and embodied
practices of female backpackers. |
| Dr Mike Fedeski |
fedeski"at"cardiff.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two, Three, Four, Five |
| Senior Teaching Fellow, Welsh School of Architecture,
Cardiff University |
| http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/school/staff/fedeski.html |
| An architect by training, I have become increasingly
aware of the importance of two oft-neglected issues, which combine
in the field of urban soundscape. The first is the potency of the
space between buildings in shaping people's experience of the built
environment. This is space that we experience both individually and
collectively: our experience of a city appears to unfold from the
action of using it, from our reason for being there, and yet it is
something we can share with strangers from across the world. The second
is the multi-sensory nature of our experience of spaces in which we
live and move: experiences we might share with strangers are very
much a part of ourselves. My particular research interest is in urban
soundscape, and in the idea of sonic place. How do we experience urban
spaces sonically, and what makes some places sonically distinct from
others? How does sound contribute to our total experience of urban
space? What can we diagnose from the soundscape of a city about the
way life is lived there? Why is more attention paid to negative than
to positive aspects of the soundscape? |
| Professor Harry Ferguson |
harry.ferguson"at"uwe.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Professor of Social Work, University of the West of
England |
| http://hsc.uwe.ac.uk/net/research/Default.aspx?pageindex=8&pageid=98 |
| I am trying to research social workers and other welfare
practitioners' experiences of their work and especially home visiting.
I'm interested in developing an embodied theory of practice which
focuses on how sensescapes shape the experience of stepping into someone
else's home, perceptions of their lives and risks to vulnerable children
and adults. I want to try and bring the feelings of disgust, fear,
pleasure which pervade such experiences onto the agenda. |
| Dr Matthew Fitzjohn |
mpf21"at"liverpool.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Lecturer, University of Liverpool |
| http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/organisation/people/fitzjohn.htm |
| I am an archaeologist whose research interests have
focused on Later European Prehistory, in particular in addressing
issues of urbanisation and identity in relation to the Iron Age of
the Mediterranean (roughly the first millennium B.C.). Most recently,
I have been examining the modifications in form and use of houses
through the Iron Age. Uniquely to classical archaeology, this project
utilises digital visualisation (GIS and CGI) to investigate the evolution
of the sensory experiences of domestic space and how this related
to the creation of different notions of identity and selfhood across
the ancient Greek world through time. |
| David Foale |
d.foale"at"pgr.salford.ac.uk
|
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| Phd Student in Acoustics Research Centre, Salford University |
| I am starting a PhD loosely titled "soundscapes,
gender and the built environment". I'm interested in our sound
identities, and how the built environment affects and effects our
gender identity, as well as how soundscapes help to reinforce gender
segregation in society. While I'm still in the very early stages,
I'm finding links between male-public-noisy and female-private-silent,
perhaps most exemplified in public vs private public transport and
the acceptance of it. I'm really interested in finding more about
the built environment and other people's ways of looking at it! |
| Prof David Frohlich |
d.frohlich"at"surrey.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Director, Digital World Research Centre, School of Human
Sciences, University of Surrey |
| http://www.dwrc.surrey.ac.uk/People/DavidFrohlich/tabid/74/Default.aspx |
| David Frohlich has been researching the sentimental
value of recorded sounds with photographs, as a new form of digital
'audiophotography'. He is currently extending this work in collaboration
with Gerard Oleksik and Abigail Sellen, in a Microsoft-funded project
on domestic soundscapes and ambient sonic displays |
| Dr Duncan Fuller |
duncan.fuller"at"northumbria.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Senior lecturer in human geography, Northumbria University |
| http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/staffbiog/geog/duncanf/ |
| Duncan Fuller is a socio-economic geographer whose diverse
research interests are focused around the emerging new economic geographies
of social and financial exclusion and inclusion, credit union development,
alternative economic spaces and proliferative economies, graffiti,
participatory appraisal and participatory methodologies, public geographies,
and a developing focus/interest in geographies of the academy (encompassing
analysis of the 'restructured'/corporatised university, what universities
are for, new managerialism, and academic performativity and identity).
He likes looking up, down and around and seeing 'interesting' things…. |
| Prof Simon Guy |
simon.guy"at"manchester.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Two, Three, Four, Five |
| Professor of Architecture, UMARC |
| http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/staff/guy_simon.htm |
| Simon Guy is Professor of Architecture and Head of the
Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC) in the School of Environment
and Development at the University of Manchester in the UK. His research
is aimed at critically understanding the co-evolution of design and
development strategies and socio-economic processes shaping cities.
He is interested in how the senses make a difference to how we experience,
understand and act in cities. In particular, his research engages
with changing forms of architectural knowledge and practice and specifically
with debates about buildings and the environment. |
| Thomas Hall |
hallta"at"cardiff.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University |
| Interested in the intersection of different time signatures
and movements in the city centre, particularly everyday, circadian
rhythms and the slower pulse of economic development. Ethnographic
work with 'out of hours' patrols and 'street' populations (rough sleepers,
sex workers, street drinkers) brings this into empirical focus. |
| Dr Per Hedfors |
per.hedfors"at"sol.slu.se |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Comprehensive Planner, Dept. Urban and Rural development,
Swedish Univ. Agricultural Sciences |
| Per Hedfors wrote the thesis "Site Soundscapes
- Landscape Architecture in the Light of Sound" in 2003 introducing
'Sonotope' as a cardinal concept and highlighting that all places
have a sonic environment that should be dealt with as a resource in
planning and design. He draws attention to the lack of design tools
for auditory experiences in outdoor areas, and emphasises that sound
aesthetics is much more than noise abatement and decibel measurements.
He developed strategies for practitioners to approach practical problems
and solutions for outdoor environments. He is interested in utilising
intersensory design and multimodal approaches to reflect upon the
hegemony of vision in the architectural disciplines. |
| Ms Riina Heinonen |
rianhe"at"utu.fi |
| Seminars attended: Three |
| Student, Department of Sociology, University of Turku,
Finland |
| Nina Held |
n.held"at"lancaster.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Five |
| PhD student at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies,
Lancaster University |
| In my PhD thesis I am looking at how sexualised space
is at the same time also racialised. I am in particular interested
in the activeness of space. From the seminar I hope to gain some inspiration
about how we can think of the different sensual experiences of space. |
| Jonathan Hines |
jonathan.hines"at"architype.co.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Architect and Director of Architype |
| http://architype.co.uk/aboutus.html |
| Jonathan is an architect and director of Architype,
a design led architectural practice specialising in sustainable design
and timber construction. Jonathan has led the development of Architype's
ecological approach, through the successful delivery of a range of
pioneering projects - combining innovation and practical delivery
of solutions. Innovations developed by Architype have included breathing
construction, use of Masonite I Beams, specification of UK grown timber,
six storey timber frame, and integration of structural prefabrication
with natural ventilation systems. Architype is interested in the positive
effect of sustainability, and the use of natural materials, daylight
and ventilation on users. Architype's key projects include design
of a number of pioneering ecological timber buildings: London Wildlife
Garden Centre; Horniman Museum Centre for Understanding the Environment;
The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire; Taplow Court, Berkshire;
The Genesis Project: and Stroud Cohousing Scheme. Jonathan has been
involved in a number of national research projects (including the
Green Building Digest, the BSRIA Autonomous Technologies Research
Project and the DOE Timber Technology Group), and regular lecturing
and teaching at universities and colleges. |
| Mr Peter Howell |
julia"at"dogrosetrust.org.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Three, Five |
| Consultant, The Dog Rose Trust |
| http://www.dogrose-trust.org.uk/ |
| Peter Howell was trained as an Architect and was in
Research and Development at the Greater London Council Architects'
Department. He was a Research Fellow at the Building Research Establishment
and later at the Department of Environment Central, working on housing
strategy and finance. He retired early to work on sound communication
for blind people and made Acoustic Fingerprint Guides for blind persons
of ten cathedrals for the University of Birmingham. He formed the
Dog Rose Trust with his wife, Julia Ionides, who is an architectural
historian, to develop techniques for multi-sensory design. In 2005
they published Another Eyesight, Multi-Sensory Design in Context.
Currently they are developing two and three dimensional tactile forms,
working with sound and acting as consultants on disability. |
| Alison Hui |
a.hui"at"lancaster.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| Phd Student at the Department of Sociology, Lancaster
University |
| My background as a musician has contributed to my interest
in how the senses are (or are not) written into experiences and research.
In addition to a broad methodological interest in the role of the
body and senses in research, I am interested in the role of the senses
and sensing within tourism mobilities. Currently, I am exploring themes
such as the sensual relationships between different places and performances
of tourism, how particular sensual experiences can motivate tourism
engagements, and the way in which embodied memories contribute to
confused and haunting temporalities and rhythms. |
| Dr Katherine Irvine |
KIrvine"at"dmu.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Research Fellow, Institute of Energy and Sustainable
Development, De Montfort University |
| Katherine has a strong interest in the benefits of the
natural environment for human health and well-being on multiple dimensions.
Previous work has included topics such as individual and collective
interpretations of the connection among consumerism, the environment
and quality of life; the effect of work breaks in nature on hospital
nurses' job outlook; and motivation for land stewardship among private
forest owners. Her current research explores the urban environment
in particular, focusing on residents' perceptions of nature, their
experience of the soundscape, and the contribution of ecological diversity
to restoration and the experience of place. |
| Ms Hannah Jones |
welshhan"at"yahoo.co.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Design department, Goldsmiths College, University of
London |
| Hannah Jones is a lecturer on the MA Design Futures
programme and a PhD student in the Design department at Goldsmiths
College, University of London. Hannah's PhD research into 'awkward
space' invites an aesthetic inquiry into the uneven quality of 'flow'
that visitors experience when travelling through the built environment.
Where most orthodox descriptions may imply that for example, pedestrian
turbulence is disagreeable or undesirable, her methods of managing
'untidy' unplanned spaces are able to elicit intangible qualities
and ad hoc processes in a way that would be difficult using rational
planning methods. |
| Bob Jeffrey |
shadow.jeffery"at"gmail.com |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Salford University |
| I am researching my PhD on the topic of mobility and
inequality, in which ways can we conceive of the relation between
physical mobility, access to mobile technologies and social stratification. |
| Hanne Louise Jensen |
|
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| Ph.d.student, Department of Environmental, Social and
Spatial Change, Roskilde University |
| Paola Jiron |
pjiron"at"gmail.com |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| PhD Student, London School of Economics |
| Using an ethnographic approach to urban daily mobility
practices in Santiago de Chile, I explore the way mobile places and
transient places are generated on an everyday basis. I particularly
looks at the way different actors experience this practice on a daily
basis and the meaning they give to them. The experiences described
are not related only to what can be seen as an outsider of a practice,
but on selected people's own recollection of how their senses, particularly
sight, hearing, smell and touch are exalted during their journeys.
My paper explains how, precisely because the experience is extremely
sensorial, place making is particularly relevant during mobile moments
and spaces. |
| Dr Phil Jones |
p.i.jones"at"bham.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth
& Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham |
| http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/people/index.asp?ID=400#400 |
| I am about to commence work on an ESRC funded project
(Rescue Geographies: developing methods for public geographies) with
James Evans, which connects GPS data with walked interviews to explore
the impact of spatial location on eliciting emotional responses to
the built environment. |
| Dr Ciara Kierans |
c.kierans"at"liv.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Lecture in Qualitative Research, School of Population,
Community & Behavioural Sciences, The University of Liverpool |
| Website |
| A medical anthropologist who works on medical technologies
and the senses; culture and the body and urban regeneration food and
the senses. |
| Dr Hakhee Kim |
h.kim"at"ioe.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Research Associate, Institute of Education, University
of London |
| http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=12330&12330_0=14734 |
| Hakhee Kim is a research associate at the Institute
of Education, University of London. She is interested in bridging
the gap between academic geography and everyday lives of children
as a Korean geography educator. She also did her research fieldwork
in Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore as a cultural geographer and explored
the sensuous worlds in the Asian cities. In her Ph. D research, she
tried to challenge the stereotyping image of Southeast Asia through
everyday food and various foodscapes. |
| Kim Kullman |
Kim.Kullman"at"helsinki.fi |
| Seminars attended: Five |
| PhD student, University of Helsinki |
| My research is concerned with children´s embodied
experiences of the school journey, including its shifting configurations
of movement, technologies of mobility and risks. I have also studied
skateboarding in relation to embodiment, materiality and collectivity.
|
| Dr Julian Lamb |
julian.lamb"at"uce.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Planning and Construction,
UCE Birmingham. |
| |
| From the perspective of an Industrial Archaeologist
I have an interest in method and discipline boundary-issues for the
study of the 'present to recent past'. I focus on those built environments,
such as post-war shopping malls and urban thoroughfares that are frequently
lost to redevelopment and considered too recent, familiar and everyday
to be worth preserving through record. Current work involves a range
of methods from deep mapping to ambient sound recording that seek
to record and re-present an impression of the built environment that
more traditional archaeological approaches fail to encompass or indeed
recognise. |
| Helmut Lemke |
H.Lemke"at"salford.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| AHRC Research Fellow in Sound Art, Irwell Valley Fine
Art, University of Salford |
| |
| My research is concerened with the relationship of Sound
n Site, |
| Dr Peter Lennox |
p.lennox"at"derby.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
Director, Signal Processing and Applications Research
Group
(SPARG), Faculty of Art, Design and Technology, University of Derby |
| http://sparg.derby.ac.uk/SPARG/Staff_PLX.asp |
| 1)Auditory Spatial Perception: "What" and
"Where" in "3-D" environments, real and artificial.
2)Multi-modal perceptual issues - Multimodal and unimodal perception
are they qualitatively different? Is a self-contained model of auditory
perception viable, or is single-sense perception the special case?
3)Aesthetics, attention and perception; are they entangled? Does territoriality
underpin spatial perception (is spatial perception actually territory-perception)?
Philosophies of perception; for instance, can the signal-processing,
bottom-up sensory models of perception be reconciled with top-down,
schema-driven ones? Are Ecological and Cognitive approaches to perception
necessarily incommensurate? Do cognitive spatial mapping and causal
mapping overlap? |
| Dr Raymond Lucas |
raymond.p.lucas"at"btinternet.com |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Multimodal Representations
of Urban Space, University of Strathclyde |
| http://www.strath.ac.uk/architecture/staff/lucasraymondmr/ |
| I am currently conducting research for the AHRC/ESRC's
Designing for the 21st Century scheme. The project with Gordon Mair,
Ombretta Romice and Wolfgang Sonne is investigating ways of drawing
and representing the whole sensory experience of the urban environment
rather than simply accepting the visual bias. The aim is to design
a notational system that allows for both description and design of
urban environments, which can then be sent out to design practices
as a practical method for design. Following a background in architecture
researching film and architecture, Lucas' PhD was in anthropology,
looking at the anthropology of inscriptive practices and creativity.
This was followed by a post as researcher on 'Inflecting Space' for
the AHRC at the University of Edinburgh. This project investigated
the extent of the human voice in determining public space. |
| Katherina Manderscheid |
k.manderscheid"at"lancaster.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four |
| Visiting research fellow, Centre for Mobilities Research,
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University |
| Filipa Matos |
f.silva"at"ucl.ac.uk
|
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| PhD student, urban design researcher and educator, The
Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning |
| I am currently completing my research on Temporality
in everyday urban places (uncovering urban rhythms): implications
for design. My main research interests are on temporality in everyday
urban places, place-making through design, and the interface betweenurban
and musical aesthetic experience. Research methodologies include empirical
and phenomenological observations through film and photography, narratives
of space and morphological analysis. |
| Steve Millington |
s.millington@mmu.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four |
| Department of Environment and Planning, MMU |
| Research focuses upon landscapes of illumination, geographies
of play and urban regeneration and branding. |
| Prof Steven Milner |
stephen.j.milner"at"manchester.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two, Four |
| Serena Professor of Italian, University of Manchester |
| http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/italian/StephenJMilner |
| Steve Milner is Professor of Italian at Manchester and
works on Italian medieval and Renaissance cultural history with a
particular interest in the relation between spatial and literary practice
within the peninsula's urban communes. He is currently working on
a volume provisionally entitled 'Places of Invention' which examines
the relationship between rhetoric and space in premodern Florence
with a view to providing a revisionary account of subject formation
which moves beyond the classic 19th C paradigm of Renaissance individualism. |
| Mr Omar Mohammad |
omar_larch"at"yahoo.co.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Three |
| PhD student in Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College
of Art |
The research I am working on at the moment is titled:
Scoring Landscape;
Soundscape and People "Motation" Investigating a new tool
for analysing and designing open space based on mapping people's behaviour
influenced by sounds. |
| Ernesto Lopez Morales |
ucfuejl"at"ucl.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| PhD Student, Development Planning Unit, Bartlett Faculty
of the Built Environment, UCL |
| I'm architect and "urbanist" from Chile, Latin
America. My current PhD topic focuses on alternative ways of urban
contestation, especially since the dominant mechanisms of urban development
and transport policies produce vertical, highly standardised and abstract
spatiality in the cities. Therefore I consider sensual experiences
in urban space could become an interesting topic to research about,
in order to conceive new autonomous and contesting ways of bottom-up
urban development. |
| Professor Ruth Morrow |
r.morrow"at"ulster.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Professor of Architecture, School of Art and Design,
University of Ulster |
| http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/research/artdesign/a-m/Morrow/MorrowR.htm |
| I have been interested in designing for disability since
the late 80's (firstly as a student later as architect and academic)
this has led to an interest in the senses and how this impacts on
architectural education. I have also been involved in sensory tours
and installations over the years but currently one of my research
projects (see: http://girliconcrete.blogspot.com
- collaboration with a textile designer) has developed out of a wider
interest in mainstreaming tactility in the built environment. Its
early stages but we also see strong acoustic potential in the resultant
product. |
| Mr Jonathan Mosley |
Jonathan.mosley"at"uwe.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Senior Lecturer, Architect, Artist, School of Planning
& Architecture, University of the West of England |
| http://www.built-environment.uwe.ac.uk/schools/pa/staffDetails.asp?StaffID=jw-mosley |
| My interests in the multi-sensory experience of architecture
and urban space have informed both my teaching on the Bachelor of
Architecture course at Bristol UWE and my research work. This year's
Design Unit on the BArch course focused on the inter-relationships
of Film, Architecture and Narrative. Exploration of how movement,
sound and memory can both influence design and extend the communication
of architectural schemes was embedded within the projects. My research
work in collaboration with artist Sophie Warren explores the realm
between art, architecture and urbanism. Our work is concerned with
how architectural and urban space is perceived and articulated by
those inhabiting it. The collaboration creates projects that intervene
in an improvised way within the city landscape and generates gallery-based
work in response to it. Actively investigating places on the point
of change, we examine aspirations for the built environment alongside
realities. |
| Maja De Neergaard |
mlsdn"at"ruc.dk
|
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| Ph.d.student, Department of Environmental, Social and
Spatial Change, Roskilde University |
| I am exploring the everyday rhythms of urban -rural
migrants. |
| Mr Gerard Oleksik |
g.oleksik"at"surrey.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Research Fellow, Digital World Research Centre, University
of Surrey |
| Gerard Oleksik has recently submitted a PhD entitled
'Music in the age of the internet: an investigation into the relationship
between music, music use and technology', which investigates the socio-technical
construction of musical experience both within and without the domestic
environment. He is currently working on a Microsoft-funded project
on domestic soundscapes and ambient sonic displays. |
| Ms Sarah Payne |
sarah.payne"at"postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Two |
| PhD student, Environmental Psychology, UMARC |
| My current research is related to urban park soundscapes
and how this influences peoples experience of the public place. I'm
also interested in how some environments are portrayed as public,
yet they are privately owned and monitored, accepting only approved
behaviours and designing out others. I have previously studied skateboarders
perceptions of using public space compared to designed skate parks,
including the importance of the texture of the environment. |
| Dr Sarah Pink |
S.Pink"at"lboro.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Four |
| Reader in Social Anthropology, Department of Social
Sciences, Loughborough University |
| Research focuses upon the Cittaslow movement in UK cities
and the way in which this informs practices, place-marketing and policies.
Further work also explores contested forms of walking. |
| Tracey Potts |
Tracey.Potts"at"nottingham.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: Five |
| Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies,
University of Nottingham |
| My research interests focus around aesthetics, material
culture and everyday life. I have recently published an article on
clutter, which utilised Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis to illuminate
the micromanagement of everyday rhythms in the home. This has led
to a project dealing with procrastination and the development of new
working rhythms and workstyles suited to 24/7 'demand' culture. The
orchestration of rhythmic shifts in everyday practice can be seen
to reverberate in both lifestyle and workstyle, particularly as traditional
divisions between home and office life dissolve. |
| Claire Qualman |
|
| Seminars attended: Four |
| Walkwalkwalk, London |
| In my collaborative art practice with walkwalkwalk (www.walkwalkwalk.org.uk)
I engage with walking as a methodology for re-examining the city.
This live-art participatory project focuses on the overlooked and
forgotten aspects of the urban environment, taking routine everyday
walks as the starting point. We employ a multi-disciplinary approach
- past collaborations/influences include musicians, film makers and
design historians. |
| Dr George Revill |
g.revill"at"open.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One |
| Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, The Open University |
| My interests are in urban auditory cultures. I work
on geography and music and cultures of environmental understanding
with specific reference to landscape and am currently developing an
interest in urban noise "pollution". I am currently working
with a colleague in legal studies to develop a project focusing on
domestic noise disputes, environmental health and the prospects for
third party mediation. Theoretically I am interested in critiquing
the concept of "soundscapes" because I find this notion
deeply problematic... |
| Dr Lynn Sally |
LSally"at"METROPOLITAN.EDU |
| Seminars attended: Five |
| Metropolitan College of New York |
| Research focuses upon the production of sensation at
early 20th centyury Coney Island, and the way in which this is rooted
in the specific development associated with early modern capitalist
urbanism. |
| Mr Justin Spinney |
j.spinney"at"rhul.ac.uk |
| Seminars attended: One, Four |
| PhD Student, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway
University of London |
| |
| My PhD work is in the area of urban mobilities and has
used the embodied practice of cycling as a lens to research alternative
meanings of mobility. One particular strand of the research has looked
at the ways in which differing culturally informed and multi-sensory
understandings of movement and mobility come to inform notions of
space and place where vision is not the primary mode of apprehension |
| Mr Louis Shurmer-Smith |
shurmersmith"at"yahoo.co.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Retired Dean of Faculty of the Environment, University
of Portsmouth |
| Working on an Atlas of the TransManche Region. Continuing
interest in French Urban Planning. |
| Dr Pamela Shurmer-Smith |
pamelashurmer"at"yahoo.co.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two |
| Senior Fellow Geography, National University of Singapore |
| I am a social anthropologist who has shifted over into
cultural geography. I am currently attempting to realise an "amorphous"
(in the literal sense of "shape free") cultural geography
that is not Eurocentric but also goes beyond easy ideas about "global
culture". |
| Mr Tim Stephens |
digitalsoundartist"at"yahoo.co.uk |
| Seminars attended: Two, Three |
| Artist, Freelance |
I am an artist just completing a second degree in Contemporary
Installation art. My recent interests are in sound, and temperature,
as media to work with. |
| Sebastian Ureta |
sureta"at"gmail.com |
| Seminars attended: Four, Five |
| Instituto de Sociología, Universidad Católica
de Chile/ Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University |
| My research explores the connections among topics of
technology,mobility, everyday life and social exclusion. Since the
beginning of 2007 I've been working in a research project provisionally
entitled "The 'multiple user' of Transantiago" which deals
with the multiple enactments of the users of a new public transport
system launch in the city of Santiago, Chile at the beginning of 2007.
Using a combination of both Mobility Research and Actor-Network Theory
analytical frameworks the aim of the project is to define and contrast
the multiple (and often contradictory) ways in which the 'user of
Transantiago' has been defined and understood by a series of both
governmental and private actors during the development of Transantiago
and how these enactments interact with the human beings, mostly low
income population, who starts using Transantiago for they daily travels
since February 2007. |
ack
Home
Rationale 
Events
People
Acknowledgements
Links
Contact 