NOTOURS WORKSHOP
2013
Description

In the frame of the events organized by the Laboratory Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (L.E.C.A.D.) and the Department of Architecture (TAM) of the University of Thessaly, welcomed the NoTours workshop proposed by the Spanish collective of artists and sound engineers escoitar (escoitar.org).

The aim of the workshop was to create a soundwalk in the public spaces of Volos. Participants created a soundwalk through the web site platform NoTours (NoTours.org) and experimented it in the real public spaces for which it has been created for. It is described as an augmented aurality experience; the sound walk is experimented through headphones connected to an Android smartphone while users walk in the public spaces and try to figure out the sounds that the creator of the soundwalk has left for them.

The workshop is opened for 20 participants and six smartphones were provided to experiment the soundwalks.

The workshop started on Tuesday, 26th of March and ended on Saturday 30th of March, 3-4 work hours per day.

Student projects are presented at www.arch.uth.gr/EUAcousticHeritage2013

Organisation:
TAM: Nicolas REMY
escoitar: Horacio Dieguez Martinez

Technical support:
Nikos Vamvakas (LECAD)