How Soundwalks Are Helping Me Appreciate My Surroundings — The Good Trade

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Soundwalks are ‘any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment.’ Here’s how our editor is using them to counter the increasingly automated noises we hear everyday.

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Babak Fakhamzadeh

Founder Online Jury 2022 Online Jury 2023

Babak was working in ICT4D before it had a name (2001), never really left it, and knows how to throw together a pretty mean combination of a wide array of programming languages, both frontend and backend. He brought photomarathons to Africa (2007) and won ...

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