Join us in this conversation about the importance of cultivating diverse listening cultures, practices, and spaces that have the potential and the change to influence how our cities are managed and shaped. With guest speakers Jolande Venema, Toine van Mourik, Renate Zentschnig, Linnea Semmerling and Colette Aliman. The evening is moderated by Federica Notari.
Following an opening performance by Rotterdam-based sound artist and researcher Colette Aliman, we will touch on themes of urban planning and policy-making, night life, listening practices, sonic world-building, and sonic knowledge production and its spaces, in exploring questions such as: Should urban planners take cues from sonic methodologies within the cultural sector? What if composers have a seat at city-planning tables? And how can collective listening practices and the ‘politics of vibration’ being cultivated within small- and larger-scale cultural spaces be disseminated at the level of municipal governance?
