You are invited to an afternoon of sharing and discussing creative wellbeing approaches to sustainable place-making. Join local and international researchers, practitioners, and artists to explore the potential of situated and critical listening practices as a way of “commoning”, that is of making and living well with human and non-human others, in often harsh and changing urban environments.
14:00 Part 1: Welcome by Dr Matt Adams
Interactive Listening Walk by Bela Emerson & Dr Bethan Prosser (Brighton & Hove Music for Connection)
15:30 Part 2: Talking & sharing with Dr Phillipe Woloszyn (researcher in architecture, acoustics and ambience studies, University of Bordeaux) and Sara Ducloy (doctoral student, National School of Architecture and Landscapes, University of Bordeaux)
16:30 Break
16:45 Part 3: Sounding out the Waste House & Béton Communs/Concrete Commons music- making with Dr Elona Hoover (University of Brighton)
17:45 Reception with refreshments

All welcome to participate in exploring these themes of arts and ecology, creative methodologies, liveability, and sustainable communities. This free event will be recorded for a community radio piece to be shared with a wider audience.

This event is linked with the AmbiMuse Festival in Bordeaux, a collaboration between Passage UMR 5319 CNRS research centre, Compagnie Aïla & Béton Communs. With thanks to funding from the University of Brighton Creative for Arts & Wellbeing, ESRC South Coast Doctoral Partnership and Passage UMR 5319 CNRS research centre.