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Invisible Places | Sounding Cities Symposium Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place

Dates: 18 – 20 July, Location: Viseu, Portugal For more information: http://invisibleplaces.orghttp://invisibleplaces.org/

Format/Keynote speakers

Stream 1: Architecture and urban planning, keynote speaker Jean-Paul Thibaud Stream 2: Urban sounds, identity and sense of place, keynote speaker Brandon Labelle Stream 3: Sound art as public art, keynote speaker Salome Voegelin

Often acoustic space is ignored in the construction of a public space, yet the negative impact this has does not seem to get many complaints. People rarely require more quality of the sonic world, because the average consumer does not have the necessary references to change this state of affairs. We know that the prevalence of noise or sounds that do not convey any social significance and are a disturbance of the quality of life, reduces the ability to identify with the place we inhabit. It is therefore urgent to think about the acoustical problems societies are facing today and integrate that thinking in urban planning, architecture and management of public space, because the idea we have of ourselves, our personal awareness and the relationships we build in the external world, are inextricably linked to a space. We all exist somewhere. And personal identity also relates to this.

Call for papers – main topics

- Sound, place and identity - Urban planning and architecture - Policies for noise control - Urban soundscapes - Sound and sense of place - The study of soundscapes as social and political intervention - Sound communities - The creation of positive soundscapes - Sound art as public art

Call for audio works

We invite artists to show sound pieces approaching the subject of “Sound and Sense of Place”. We are interested in artistic works that raise awareness to the urban soundscape and that reflect critically on how cities are growing and being planned around the globe.

Important Dates

15 March: Abstracts Submission Deadline (up to 500 words) 31 March: Audio Works Submission Deadline 15 April: Notifications 28 April: Registrations open 31 May: Delivery of Full Papers and Final Versions

Scientific Committee

Adriana Sáhttp://adrianasa.planetaclix.pt/ Goldsmiths University, EAVI Group / Computing Department Angus Carlylehttp://crisap.org/ Professor of Sound and Landscape (University of the Arts London / CRiSAP) Carlos Alberto Augustohttp://www.carlosalbertoaugusto.com/ Sound designer, composer / IPA Eric Leonardsonhttp://ericleonardson.org/ School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) / President do World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman State University of New York, Binghamton / Sounding Out! John Levack Drever Goldsmiths / University of London José Bragança de Miranda FCSH – UNL / U. Lusófona José Luís Bento Coelho CAPS - IST Luísa Ribas ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon Luís Cláudio Ribeirohttp://www.lisbonsoundmap.org/ U.Lusófona / Lisbon SoundMap Maile Colberthttp://www.mailecolbert.com/ i2ADS / Cross the Pond / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto / Binaural Nodar Miguel Carvalhaishttp://www.carvalhais.org/ ID+ / Crónica / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto Mohammed Bazine Boubezarihttp://www.boubezari.com/ Architect/ Parque Expo / CAPS - IST Peter Cusackhttp://sonic-places.dock-berlin.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=6 University of the Arts, London/CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice) Pedro Rebelohttp://pedrorebelo.wordpress.com/ SARC/Queen's University Belfast / UFRJ Raquel Castrohttp://vimeo.com/raquelcastro FCSH-UNL / CECL (Research Centre on Communication and Languages) / U.Lusíada Sabine Breitsameter Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences Teresa Cruz FCSH–UNL Vítor Joaquim UCP, Porto

Additional information and submission details:

* All works must be submitted via EasyChair — https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ip2014 Submissions must be original and will be rigorously reviewed by an international and multidisciplinary scientific committee, in a process that will assess originality, relevance, aesthetic and technical achievements; * The reviewing will be double-blind; please omit all information about the authors in the submissions; * Call for papers: submission of abstracts up to 500 words * Audio works should be accompanied by a 500 word abstract * All images and media assets must be cleared for publication by the authors; * At least one of the authors of each contribution must register to the conference before the first author registration deadline in order for the work to be published in the proceedings; * Invisible Places’s working language is English; * Invisible Places’s conference proceedings (with ISBN) will be published online; * Please contact the program chairs at soundingcities@gmail.commailto:soundingcities@gmail.com with any questions regarding submissions.

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