The City and Its Double proposes an exploration of urban and architectural space through listening, shifting the visual primacy of modernity to make way for an aural, fluid, and affective sensibility. This project investigates the territories where sound reveals what maps remain silent about: latent tensions, filtered memories, unstable landscapes. Inspired by Jessica Benjamin’s notion of the “third”—relational, intersubjective, and dynamic—as well as Edward Soja’s “third space” and Gilles Clément’s “third landscape,” the work delves into what is residual, interstitial, and beyond the codification of urban order. Through georeferenced audio, graphic scores, and performative activations, the works do not represent space: they intensify it. The City and Its Double is an invitation to listen to what usually goes unheard: the repressed, the unproductive, the silenced. To inhabit the city through its folds, its ruins, its overflows. To experience the urban as an unconscious and resonant field.

The City and its Double is a performative sound installation that unfolds in three stages, each exploring different ways of inhabiting space through sound and listening. The first stage consists of creating an audiovisual archive and a georeferenced aural map using the Echoes platform, which guides individual headphone-based walks at the CHELA Cultural Center (Buenos Aires). The second stage “grounds” and amplifies these sounds to collectively reconstruct the polyphonic materiality of the soundscape. In the third stage, a collective improvisation performance intervenes in and transforms the sounds in real time, creating new landscapes from eclectic objects and technologies, thus deepening the shared experience of space and listening.