Lacey says with an increase in hybrid working arrangements, there is an opportunity for the city to be reimagined, not just as a place of commerce, but also a place of intrigue.
“When we think about ambience we usually think about a cafe or a restaurant, but I am interested in exploring the kinds of interventions that can be introduced into cities that can generate a certain vibe in a city and that also have the potential to impact people’s moods and feelings in an everyday context.” They are designed to get down to the nitty gritty of what makes ambience, and does it improve people’s mood,” Lacey explained. “The questions are specifically designed to understand people’s mood when they arrive at the Sonic Gathering Space and their mood after they've experienced the work. The questions were designed by eminent environmental planning and urban research academic Emeritus Professor Lex Brown from Griffith University. The Sonic Gathering Space also features a QR code, which users can scan to answer questions designed to understand how people respond to the ambience intervention. “So, it provides the perfect opportunity to stop and think about ‘what is it that draws us to a particular place, like the city? What are the sounds and smells and sights that make us want to keep coming back?” he said.
And there’s a lot less traffic around, so it’s also not as noisy.” “And even now, without any government lockdowns, people are trying to reduce their movement, so you don’t have that normal human vibe of the cafes and bars and restaurants humming along. You have a lot more people working and studying from home and businesses that have closed down. “I think the most obvious difference is the lack of people on the street.
“There’s no doubt the vibe in Melbourne’s CBD has changed dramatically over the past two years,” he said. However, Lacey said the timing of the Sonic Gathering Space installation couldn’t have been better, as the city’s collective attention turns towards reinvigorating and reimagining the CBD, as part of its pandemic recovery. He said it was therefore “quite ironic” that when the design was finally completed and installed in the forecourt of the Old Melbourne Gaol, late last year, it was during another lockdown “when it was eerily quiet and not busy at all.” “Typically, biophilic design has been used to create ambiences in cities that are densely populated to create spaces of restoration for busy, stressed-out citizens who don’t have access to nature and parks,” Lacey said. The Sonic Gathering Space is a prototype biophilic sound design installation by Jordan Lacey, a Research Fellow from the School of Design at RMIT University, and created in collaboration with landscape architect Associate Professor Charles Anderson, also from RMIT.īiophilic design is used within the building industry and urban design to increase residents’ connectivity to the natural environment and to encourage restoration through direct and indirect contact with nature.
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