Signorelli, V; (2017) Listen Through the Map. Role and Improvements of Digital Cartography in Exploring the Urban Sonic Environment. In: Piga, BEA and Salerno, R, (eds.) Urban Design and Representation A Multidisciplinary and Multisensory Approach. (pp. 153-164). Springer: Cham, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Throughout history, cartographic representations have been employed as medium to collect, describe and comprehend the spatial relationships between the physical and social forms of the urban environment. Over the last decades, the improvements in information technologies have brought to digital mapping solutions able to renovate the traditional two-dimensional supports into interactive, immersive and multimodal media. In this context, the soundmap, a multidisciplinary device used to describe the sonic environment, is one of the cartographic products that has taken advantage of these improvements. Digital mapping solutions allow us to collect and listen to geolocated sound recordings of the urban/rural environment, therefore, they provide new means for describing the perceptive auditory experiences. The role, usages, future perspectives and challenges of the soundmap will be highlighted to understand how, and to which extent, these cartographic media can and should be enriched in order to describe the urban ambiances in their multisensory, temporal and spatial dimensions.

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