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Hear Our Houston

Carrie Schneider

Carrie Schneider

Artist exploring creativity as a form of survival. (United States) 
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Houston, TX, USA

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Audiowalk

Sub-collection · 48 items

Leading and Following

Collection · 7 items
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solo walk

Sub-collection · 25 items
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urban

Sub-collection · 133 items
Sub-collection

Audiowalk

Sub-collection · 48 items

Leading and Following

Collection · 7 items
Sub-collection

solo walk

Sub-collection · 25 items
Sub-collection

urban

Sub-collection · 133 items
Hear Our Houston is an archive of community-made audio walking tours (2011–2015) that capture personal stories, memories, and perspectives from across the city. Once an interactive platform, it remains a rich record of Houston’s voices, places, and shared creativity.

Hear Our Houston is a hub of public generated audio walking tours around our city. Mostly active from 2011-2015, it serves now as an archive, and the range of the collection holds up well.

All sorts of folks from all around town took a walk, recording their thoughts, observations, stories, memories, and knowledge along the way. Using new(ish) technology at the time, through the website and an app, they uploaded the tour to HearOurHouston.com where anyone can download it for free and retrace the tour maker’s steps, layering meaning into geography, and trying on another person’s perspective.

Hear Our Houston was used to document elders stories, help with community driven development, and as curriculum from elementary school to community college where students would make and swap tours “walking a mile in each others’ shoes.”

Most of all, it was a platform for artists and residents to share undertold aspects of their expertise on some of the most beautifully created and carefully attended to corners of this sprawling city.
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Information available at the Carrie Schneider’s website.

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Schneider, C. (2011). Hear Our Houston. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/hear-our-houston/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto
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