Soundwalking and Countermapping: Explore our Campus through Careful Listening

How do we make sense of a place? How do power dynamics and knowledge systems shape the ways we navigate and listen to a space?
 
In this collaborative workshop hosted by the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection, we invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore McMaster’s campus through intentional listening. Following an introduction to sound theory, we will embark on an outdoor guided listening activity along a planned route. Through these exercises, participants will develop countermaps of McMaster’s campus, challenging dominant power structures and uncovering its unique soundscape.
 
If you're interested in critical mapping, sound art, or acoustic ecology, this workshop is for you!
 
Note: the soundwalk portion of this workshop will take place outside. Please come dressed for the spring weather! If you require any accommodations, please contact scds@mcmaster.ca

Details: This workshop will not be recorded.

Facilitators: Andrea Zeffiro, Subhanya Sivajothy, Chelsea Miya, Christine Homuth, Saman Goudarzi, John Fink, Danica Evering, and Alexis-Carlota Cochrane