Soundwalking and Countermapping: Explore our Campus through Careful Listening In-Person
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
- Date:
- Friday, April 4, 2025
- Time:
- 12:30pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship (1st Floor, Mills Library)
- Audience:
- Everyone
- Categories:
- DMDS SCDS Sponsored Events Workshops
THE SHERMAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
The Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship (SCDS), located in McMaster University Library, provides consulting, instruction, and technical support to faculty, staff, students, and community members for all aspects of digital scholarship — from teaching and training to research, dissemination, and beyond.
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CODE OF CONDUCT
The Sherman Centre and the McMaster University Library are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for its presenters and participants. As a participant in this session, you agree to support and help cultivate an experience that is collaborative, respectful, and inclusive, as well as free of harassment, discrimination, and oppression. We reserve the right to remove participants who exhibit harassing, malicious or persistently disruptive behaviour. Please refer to our code of conduct webpage for more information.