SMELLS, WELL-BEING AND…

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For the Journal Frontiers in Psychology (Impact Factor 2.129 [JCR, 2019], section: Environmental Psychology), Drs. Jieling Xiao, Francesco Aletta and I are curating a Research Topic on Smells, Well-being, and the Built Environment. Below an excerpt from the Call for Contributions, open until 30 November 2020.

“From the pungent smells of Khari Baoli Spice Market in New Delhi to soothing smells of Mayfair Lavender Farm in south London, smells bring distinct identities to places and can connect people emotionally to the surroundings. Smells are powerful to influence our feeling and recall memories of the past. Experiences of smells enrich our understandings of places and behavioral responses in places. In light of aromatherapies, spaces with therapeutic smells can potentially bring positive impacts on human wellbeing. In service spaces, smells are important environmental cues to delight people. In artistic practice, smells are curated to create an immersive experience to connect the audience and artists’ inner worlds. Conversely smells in the form of odor pollution deriving from waste, traffic, plants, and food districts can compromise the quality of life of residents, and negatively affect our experience of places and lead to behavior changes.

Smell, as a wellbeing-spatial medium, how much do we know about?

We aim to collect a body of work to understand the emotional and wellbeing responses resulted from smells in different public spaces (museums, highstreets, heritage buildings, food districts, gentrified neighborhoods, squares, etc.) to inform future spatial design and management.

In particular, the collection wishes to contribute three parts of literature:

Theoretical frameworks to understand relationships between smells, wellbeing and emotions, behaviors and physiological aspects;
Methodological approaches to measure smell triggered emotions, experiences, and quality of life;
Practical explorations on the process and challenges of using smells to trigger emotions and manipulate behaviors.

We welcome cross-disciplinary contributions from architecture, geography, urban design and planning, psychology, neuroscience, business management, art and cultural studies, environmental planning, environmental justice, gentrification studies, citizen science. The collection is open to a broad range of article types, including Original Research, Review, Hypothesis and Theory, Perspective, Brief Research Report, and Case Study. Please note that Authors may include audios and videos as supplementary materials”.

Keywords: wellbeing, emotions, smell perception, smell scape, environmental odors, sensory urbanism, spatial design and management, environmental planning, citizen science.

YEAR

2020-present

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NYC POPS

Figure above: Map of the small quiet areas, crowdsourced with the Hush City app in Manhattan.

DESCRIPTION

In New York, privately owned public spaces (POPS) are spaces owned and managed by the private sector and accessible to the public by law. They are created by developers in exchange for the provision of space or tax reduction, and are regulated by zoning policies. A scrutiny of previous studies about New York City POPS shows that no studies have explicitly evaluated them as spaces that can provide “opportunities for quiet respite” from the city, nor have they focused on the physical and immaterial characteristics which can make these spaces beneficial for our physical and mental health. I addressed this gap in literature in the article: “Are privately owned public spaces effective design and planning tools that can favour the creation of healthy, public spaces in contemporary cities? Notes from an empirical study in New York“, where I present the results of an empirical study I conducted in New York in the Spring 2019. After providing an overview of the evolution of the regulatory status of POPS in New York, the fieldwork study is introduced, and the empirically grounded methods, drawn from auto-ethnography and soundscape studies, are presented. Subsequently, results are outlined, consisting of a map of twenty spaces, selected by applying a qualitative approach to data synthesis informed by the Sixteen Hush City Qualities framework. In conclusion, limitations of the study are discussed and preliminary recommendations are given, referring to the NYC Zoning Resolution. Further research will be needed to fully assess these findings and finalize them in the form of recommendations, which could inform planners and policy makers on how to continue their goals in developing regulations that can guide the private sector to produce healthy urban environments.

The article, written in English, is free and open access, published in Talia M. (ed), La città contemporanea: un gigante dai piedi d’argilla. Proceedings of the International Conference Urbanpromo XVI edizione Progetti per il Paese. Planum Publisher, Roma-Milano, pp. 340-346. SBN 9788899237226

YEAR

2019

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research study in New York was part of the “Hush City Mobile Lab” project (2018-2020), conducted by Dr. Antonella Radicchi as the principal investigator, and supported by the HEAD-Genuit Foundation (grant number: P-17/08-W). The support of the Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. During the research stay the author was visiting HEAD-Genuit Foundation Senior Fellow at the New York University, hosted by NYU Prof. Tae Hong Park. The author is grateful to Dr. Arline Bronzaft and NYU Prof. Park for their precious mentorship during the research stay as well as to the public officials, scholars, professionals, activists and soundwalkers for their generous participation in the research and dissemination activities.

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HUSH CITY APP

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Hush City is a free, citizen science mobile app, which empowers people to identify and assess quiet areas in cities as to create an open access, web-based map of quiet areas, with the potential of orientating plans and policies for healthier living, in response to issues framed by European environmental policies (e.g. the EC END 49/2002).

Our cities are becoming noisier by the hour. Only in Europe, over 125 million people are affected by noise pollution from traffic every year (EEA 2014), and apparently, quietness is becoming a luxury available only to a few of us. By using this free mobile app, you will contribute to making quietness available to all those who appreciate it and you will generate open data, which can be exploited by policy makers and planners to monitor and protect the quiet areas crowdsourced.

Hush City app will help you to identify, access and evaluate everyday quiet areas in your neighbourhoods. You can find places such as small, quiet spots where you can go to escape the city’s chaos, relax, read a book, play with your kids, and have a pleasant conversation.

Launched in 2017 within the context of a pilot study in Berlin, Hush City is now used internationally and available in 5 languages: English, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Hush City is adopted by the City Councils of Berlin (2018) and Limerick (2020-2021) for the creation of the Quiet Areas Plans.

Join the Hush City community. It is simple!

Download the free Hush City app and install it on your smartphone
Go to one of your favourite quiet places
Launch the Hush City app and click on the button “Map the quietness around you”
Record the sound of the quiet place where you are and measure its sound levels*
Take a picture of the place where you recorded the sound
Answer the questions addressing the environmental quality of this quiet place
Share this information with the Hush City community.

Or, use the app to find a quiet spot near to you. Go to it and enjoy spending some time there.

* Please be aware that noise levels measured by the mobile app, may not be entirely accurate, depending on which smartphones are used, weather conditions and other factors.

SEE WHAT HUSH CITY CAN DO!

Watch the Hush City Teaser here. This video was made by Limerick City & County Council, with the support of the EPA.

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Hush City app is available on iTunes & Google Play Stores.

MAIN FEATURES OF THE HUSH CITY APP

Using the Hush City app, you can:

Crowdsource your favourite quiet areas and share them with the Hush City community;
Identify and access quiet areas in your city or in other cities worldwide, shared by the Hush City users;
Filter the quiet areas according to their sound levels, descriptors used to tag them, quietness, visual quality and accessibility, as perceived by the users who crowdsourced the quiet areas;
Share the quiet areas via social media;
Review your personal surveys and delete them anytime without justification;
Become a Hush City Ambassador;
Give feedback on the Hush City project.

HUSH CITY MAP

The quiet areas crowdsourced with the Hush City app are open access and available on line via the Hush City Map.

IMPACT

Hush City is included in the EC Joint Research Centre Technical Report (Ponti & Craglia 2020) among the European citizen-generated data projects impacting public policy; and in the European Commission staff working document (2020). Best Practices in Citizen Science for Environmental Monitoring.

As a citizen science analytical tool, Hush City is featured in the WHO/UN-Habitat Sourcebook (Grant et al. 2020) Integrating health in urban and territorial planning.

Hush City is adopted by the City Councils of Berlin (2018) and Limerick (2020-2021) within the context of creation of the Quiet Areas Plans. See also: Berlin Senate (2020). Lärmaktionsplan Berlin 2019-2023. Senatsverwaltung für Umwelt, Verkehr und Klimaschutz Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Berlin.

Full list of Press Coverage is available here.

AWARDS

2021 John Connell Soundscape Award

2019 Prix BLOXHUB Interactive, Category: Excellence, Honorary mention. Theme: “Making Urban Space More Liveable Using Digital Technology”.

2016 Falling Walls Young Innovator of the Year Award, Finalist.

YEAR

April 2017, 1st version; May 2018, 2nd version

CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Hush City has been invented by Dr. Arch. Antonella Radicchi.
The Hush City’s idea originates from the concept of the Hush Expo app envisioned by Dr. Arch. Antonella Radicchi for the EXPO Milan in 2015, whose mock-up was designed by Dr. Arch. Antonella Radicchi in collaboration with Roberto Lombardo.
Hush City has subsequently been developed and implemented by Dr. Arch. Antonella Radicchi at the Technical University of Berlin, in her role as the Principal Investigator of the following projects:

“Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes” (2016-2018) funded by the IPODI-Marie Curie Fellowship – People Program (TU Berlin/IPODI grant agreement no. 600209)
“Hush City Mobile Lab” (2018-2020) funded by the HEAD-Genuit Foundation [research grant P-17/08-W].

Project Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Henckel (Technical University of Berlin), Diol. Ing. Jörg Kaptain (Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection).
Soundscape Advisor: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp (Technical University of Berlin).
Acoustic Advisors: Dipl. Ing. Michael Jäcker-Cüppers (ALD, Technical University of Berlin), M.A. Manuel Frost (Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection), Dipl. Ing. Mattia Cobianchi (Bowers & Wilkins, UK).
The implementation of the Portuguese language in the mobile and web-based version of the app was funded by the Brazilian Association for Acoustical Quality – ProAcustica.

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HUSH CITY MAP

DESCRIPTION

Welcome to the Hush City Map!
Here you can explore the quiet areas collected by people in your city and worldwide by using the Hush City app!
The colored markers on the map represent the quiet areas. You can click on them to read the user feedback, have a look at the pictures, and listen to the sounds!
You can also review the quiet areas through the list view mode, if you prefer, by clicking on the list view mode icon.
Or you can filter the quiet areas and visualize them according to their noise levels, the descriptors used by the users to tag them, their perceived quietness, the overall visual quality and their accessibility.
The legend will explain you how to read the colors and the meaning of the numbers placed on the markers.

We hope you will enjoy your digital journey through the Hush City Map. Please, let us know how it goes.

Happy (quiet) surfing!

And… if you like, you can always join the Hush City community and help us in making our world a quieter place to live. Just click here to download the free Hush City app.

YEAR

2018-on

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Hush City web-platform was developed within the context of the Hush City Mobile Lab project, which has received funding from the HEAD-Genuit Foundation [P-17/08-W].

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AWARDS

2021 John Connell Soundscape Award, Winner.
2019 Prix BLOXHUB Interactive, Category: Excellence, Honorary mention. Theme: “Making Urban Space More Liveable Using Digital Technology”.
2016 Falling Walls Young Innovator of the Year 2016 Award, Finalist.
2012 Research Award Città di Firenze (City of Florence): Best Dissertation in Urbanism to be published as a monograph with the Publisher Firenze University Press.
2010 Italian National Institute of Urbanism (INU) Best Italian Dissertation in Territorial Planning Award.

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2020-2018. HEAD-Genuit Foundation Research Grant, research project: “Hush City Mobile Lab”
(201.863,20 €).
2016-2018. Marie Curie Fellowship (TU Berlin /Marie Curie-Ipodi Program), research project: “Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes” (135.000 €).
2018 American Society of Acoustics Travel Grant.
2017 American Society of Acoustics Travel Grant.
2017 HEAD-Genuit Foundation Travel Grant
2016 TU Berlin Career Development Grant, research project: Hush City (800 €).
2007-2008 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, one-year doctoral research expedition at the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, USA (26.000 €).
2006-2009 Italian Ministry of Research Scholarship for attending the School of Doctorate, Faculty of Architecture, University of Firenze, Florence, Italy (approx. 28.800 €).

IMPACT OF SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

My scientific research outputs informed/were cited in the following documents released by national and international organisations:

European Commission staff working document (2020). Best Practices in Citizen Science for Environmental Monitoring.
Ponti & Craglia (2020). Citizen-generated data for public policy. European Commission Joint Research Centre Technical Report. EC ISPRA, Italy.
Grant, M. (2020). Integrating health in urban and territorial planning: a sourcebook. WHO/UN-Habitat Publisher.
Berliner Senate (2020). Lärmaktionsplan Berlin 2019-2023. Senatsverwaltung für Umwelt, Verkehr und Klimaschutz Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Berlin.
The Municipality of Berlin (2018) and Limerick City Council (2020-2021) adopted the Hush City app for the creation of the Quiet Areas Plans, within the context of the respective Noise Action Plans.

PRESS COVERAGE

Press and media coverage in international high-level outlets. Inter alia: BBC Future, World Economic Forum, The Atlantic, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Citylab, NewCities, URBACT, Der Spiegel, Kulturradio rbb, Deutsche Welle International.

YEAR(S)

2010 – Present

BERLIN WIRD LEISER

Soundwalk in Mitte, Pankstrasse area (c) A. Radicchi 2018

DESCRIPTION

Scientific advisory activities on urban quiet areas and participatory methods & tools were conducted for the Berlin Senate (Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection), within the context of the preparatory work for the Berlin Plan of Quiet Areas (2018-2023).
In detail:
1) the free mobile application Hush City was used to favour the mapping of everyday quiet areas in the participatory campaign “Berlin wird leiser” preparatory to the Berlin Plan of Quiet Areas (2018-2023);
2) two public Hush City soundwalks were conducted so as to involve citizens, public officials and experts in the evaluation and mapping of everyday quiet areas in two neighbourhoods of Berlin: in Altstadt Köpenick (on May 16th, 2018) and in Mitte, Pankstrasse area (on September 11th, 2018).

See also:
– Radicchi, A. (2019). The Hush City approach to everyday quiet areas. Criteria and recommendations for the Berlin Plan of Quiet Areas (2018-2023). Berlino: Technical University of Berlin.
– Berlin Senate (2019). Berlin Noise Action Plan 2018-2023, Berlin, pp. 18, 436, 456-500.

YEAR

2018

PARTNER

Municipality of Berlin, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection

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SOUND- & LIGHTWALKS

Figure above: Map of the sound- & lightwalk guided in Berlin in 2019. Image source: Antonella Radicchi © 2019

What is a combined sound- & lightwalk?

The combined sound & lightwalks were invented in 2016 by Antonella Radicchi and Dietrich Henckel, respectively expert in soundscape research and lightscape studies. A combined sound and lightwalk usually focuses on two senses at a time (i.e. hearing and vision) and it takes place in the time-space of the night , since artificial light is mainly a nocturnal phenomenon. To define this novel method of combined sound and light walks, theory and practice of sound walking are taken as a reference. A combined sound and lightwalk are therefore defined as any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment and looking at its artificially lit components. For practice, it is taken as a reference the “4 Variations” framework, which indicates how to perform silent soundwalks, commented soundwalks with “simple evaluation points”, “solo soundwalks” and “soundwalks with complex evaluation points” (Radicchi 2017).

YEARS

2016-on

PUBLIC ENGAGMENT

Ideation, organization and leading of public group sound & light walks (with D. Henckel):

• Berlin, Germany, 28 November 2019. Combined sound & light walk in the neighbourhood Friedrichshain at the “Stadt Nach Acht 2019 – International Nightlife“ Conference.
• Rome, Italy, 7 June 2017. Combined sound & light walk in the neighbourhood Celio, Rome, at the 32nd Italian Congress of Geography.
• Florence, Italy, 29 November 2016. Combined sound & light walk in the neighbourhoood Santa Croce with the students of the TU Berlin.
• Berlin, Germany, 3 November 2016. Combined sound & light walk in the neighbourhoood Kreuzberg with the students of the TU Berlin.

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NYC INAD 2019

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For the celebration of the International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) 2019, public Hush City soundwalks and a day-long workshop take place in New York throughout April and May 2019.
Save the Dates!

April 8th 2019
A soundwalk is guided by Antonella, with NYU Professor Tae Hong Park, Dr. Arline Bronzaft and NYU students in the Washington Square Park area to visit, evaluate and map quiet areas, using the Hush City app.
Data collected by the participants are accessible on the Hush City Map here.
More info on the event can be found here.
This soundwalk is supported by the Acoustical Society of America (ASA): read more here.
April 24th 2019
A day-long workshop “Noise, Quietness, and the Healthy City” is hosted at New York University (NYU) with talks, discussions, and a soundwalk in the Washington Square Park area. This workshop is aimed at addressing this gap by engaging the NYC community with expert talks and soundwalks that will provide answers to important questions about city noise, including: What exactly is noise pollution? How does noise affect urban environments, population health, and local economies? What reduction measures and strategies is NYC implementing? What are quiet urban areas and what state-of-the-art measures exist for their identification and protection? What is the “soundscape approach” to noise pollution? Why does it represent a citizen-driven paradigm shift? What are the tools and resources available to take action and contribute to protection of quiet areas in cities?
Invited speakers include (in alphabetical order):
– Adrian Benepe, Senior Vice-President and Director of National Programs, The Trust for Public Land
– Arline Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board member, GrowNYC
– Nancy Nadler, MED, MA, Deputy Executive Director, Center for Hearing and Communication
– Tae Hong Park, Ph.D., Professor at New York University and Chief Architect of Citygram and CTO of NOISY
– Antonella Radicchi, Ph.D., TU Berlin Soundscape Researcher, HEAD-Genuit Foundation Fellow and inventor of the Hush City app
– Charles Shamoon, Esq., New York City Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP)
Organizers and collaborators
The “Noise, Quietness, and the Healthy City” workshop is organized by Antonella Radicchi, Tae Hong Park, and Arline Bronzaft and it has been made possible with the support of (in alphabetical order): Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC), Dayton Audio by Parts Express, GrowNYC, HEAD-Genuit Foundation, New York City Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP), New York University (NYU), NoiseGate, Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), The Quiet Coalition, The Trust for Public Land.
Read more here.
May 16th 2019
A soundwalk is guided by Antonella in the Little Italy area with the Elisabeth Street Garden community. The aim of the soundwalk is to raise awareness on the importance of accessing oases of calmness in the noisy and dense Manhattan. During the soundwalk, the group visit, evaluate and map quiet spots in the Little Italy area, using the Hush City app.
Data collected by the participants are accessible on the Hush City Map here.
More info on the event can be found here.

YEAR

2019

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Workshop and the three soundwalks were organised within the context of the Hush City Mobile Lab project, which has received funding from the HEAD-Genuit Foundation.
The first version of the Hush City app received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement no. 600209 (TU Berlin – IPODI).
The second version of the Hush City app received funding from theHEAD-Genuit Foundation.

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HUSH CITY MOBILE LAB

DESCRIPTION

The Hush City Mobile Lab’s mission is to make our cities quieter and healthier places to live in.

But, what is quietness? And how can it be defined and addressed?
In the same way that health cannot be defined as “merely the absence of disease” (WHO, 1948), the mere absence of noise is not sufficient to define quietness and ensure a good sonic environment for our physical and mental health, and social well-being.

At Hush City Mobile Lab we believe that people, like you, need to be (re)placed at the core of urban planning processes and engaged to identify, evaluate and plan everyday quiet areas in cities.
To reach this goal we apply the “open source soundscapes” methodology, combining methods and tools drawn from soundscape research and citizen science, like soundwalks and a new mobile app – the Hush City app!

The “open source soundscapes” approach was initiated in the framework of the project: “Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes” (2016-2018), and we will continue to apply and deepen the methodology through new pilots and comparative studies, like the one in progress in Granada.

The Lab’s first two-year agenda revolves around 4 key-actions:

Participation. We boost and retain citizen participation by implementing new features on the Hush City app and structuring a citizen science communication campaign.
Analyses. We apply the soundscape approach and psychoacoustic analyses to further explore the “everyday quiet areas” identified by people in Berlin using the Hush City app and, eventually, to define a descriptor.
Policy & best practices. Dedeveloping a comparative Berlin-New York case study so as to build a framework on EU and USA policies & best practices on noise abetment and soundscape planning.
Planning. Designing the “Berlin Everyday Quiet Areas Master Plan” and developing city-scale planning guidelines and regulations in Berlin.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the Lab, methods and tools include: literature review, planning and policy document analyses, narrative interviews, soundwalks, the Hush City app, psychoacoustic analyses, and the urban acupuncture method.

We are proud to collaborate with academics, artists, practitioners, city makers, and community groups in its communication that noise has to be considered a health issue and the sonic urban environment needs to be a curated common in our society.

In the end, we expect to positivly impact different fields: science, policy, environment, economy and society at large.

YEAR

2018-on

CREDITS

Project manager: Prof. Dr. Lech Suwala (Technical University of Berlin)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Arch. Antonella Radicchi (Technical University of Berlin)
Research Assistant (May 2018 – August 2019): B.Sc. Charlotte Weber (Technical University of Berlin)
Project Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Henckel (Technical University of Berlin), M.A. Jörg Kaptain (Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection).

Advisory Board (in alphabetical order):

Dr. Arline Bronzaft, Professor Emerita, City University of New York
Prof. Dr. Elena Cogato Lanza, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne
Prof. Dr. Marian Dörk, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Milena Droumeva, Simon Fraser University
M. Ing. Michael Jäcker-Cüppers, ALD, Technical University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Muki Haklay, University College London
Prof. Dr. Dirk Heinrichs, Technical University of Berlin
Mo. Albert Mayr, Time Design Bureau
Dr. Martin Memmel, QUERTEX
Prof. Rosario Pavia, University of Pescara
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Technical University of Berlin

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The project received funding from the HEAD-Genuit Foundation [P-17/08-W].
The project received the no-profit institutional support of the Berlin Senate and it will be developed in accordance with the Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection.

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BEYOND THE NOISE

DESCRIPTION

“The soundscape is a huge musical composition, unfolding around us ceaselessly [where] we are simultaneously its audience, its performers and its composers.” (Schafer, 1977)

Every year 125 million Europeans are affected by noise pollution from traffic, which affects our health, quality of life and well-being. Noise pollution, indeed, represents a hazard to our physical and psychological health, it results in huge costs to our society and it has dramatic impact on biodiversity. To take action against noise pollution is therefore imperative.
In 2002 the Environmental Noise Directive was released to tackle this challenge; furthermore the directive identifies the protection of quiet areas as a valid measure to reduce noise pollution. However, how to properly identify quiet areas is still an open question at the European policy level, as indicated by the European Environment Agency in 2014, who invited scholars to pursue in-depth research in this field by experimenting with mixed approaches.
Through the development of the Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes project, a novel, participatory methodology to identify, evaluate and plan “everyday quiet areas” in cities was successfully validated. This methodology combines the soundscape approach, citizen science and the implementation of a novel mobile app: the Hush City app.
In the pilot study, conducted in Berlin, methods like semi-structured interviews, group soundwalks and the use of the Hush City app were applied to allow the participants to identify and evaluate “everyday quiet areas” on the neighborhood scale. The results were collected to compile the Reuterkiez Everyday Quiet Areas Map, which was used as a basis to define planning guidelines for the protection of these areas.
Beyond the Berlin pilot study, the Hush City app has been applied in other cities worldwide, confirming the interest of the general public, academic circles and stakeholders on the issue of urban quiet areas and the replicability of the methodology. Positive impact is expected on different fields such as science, politcs, environment, economy and public health.

YEAR

2016-2018

CREDITS

Principal Investigator: Dr. Arch. Antonella Radicchi (Technical University of Berlin).
Project Supervisors: Professor Dr. Dietrich Henckel (Technical University of Berlin), M.A. Jörg Kaptain (Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection).
Acoustic Advisors: Dipl. Ing. Michael Jäcker-Cüppers (ALD, Technical University of Berlin), Dipl. Ing. Manuel Frost (Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection), Dipl. Ing. Mattia Cobianchi (Bowers & Wilkins, UK).
The pilot study was conducted in collaboration with Rabea and Dominik from the Stadtteilbüro Reuterkiez!
The project received the no-profit istitutional support of the Berlin Senate and it was developed in accordance with the Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement no. 600209 (TU Berlin – IPODI).
The project received the no-profit institutional support of the Berlin Senate and it will be developed in accordance with the Berlin Senate, Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection.

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