Sound-Frameworks: Best Practice Database
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I view soundscape design as acoustics 2.0. I don't view it as a separate service offering or anything like that. I view acoustics as a minimal window, not taking advantage of the full process. So I try to bring a soundscape design approach to all of the projects that we do.
2
What I find is that if something is not really enforced in policy or legislation, the project team will drop it because they realise they don't need to focus on it. So unless sound and noise become higher priorities within legislation and policy, I think that introducing them within the context of public realm projects will continue to be perceived as an add-on.
3
The challenge in working with sound in the public realm is the complexity of addressing landscape, transport, nature, people, the social aspect and how you can actually weave all of these together to create urban spaces that support both people and nature.