Public Spaces / Listen Spaces Link of the project: https://balamronan.net/espacios-publicos-espacios-de-escucha/ Objective The objective of this project is the creation of sonic actions in the public space, of a contextual nature, with the objective of inviting people to listen to the environment, the people and themselves. This through momentarily interrupt the everyday to listen to us and so try to generate a reflection and dialogue with the places and people; to try to recover the perception of our sound environment, through awareness, think and question our sound experiences, from various criteria, objective and subjective, personal, social, economic, political‌ The city Nowadays, the cities are a reflection of the reordering of the society, territory and policy under a single model, subordinated to the neoliberal economics and finance, where the only valid development is that of wealth through mass production, distribution and consumption. In neoliberalism the people, the social groups, the cultural differences, the economic inequality and the inequality of rights, matter less and less. We have been invaded though an over saturation of visual and sound advertising through different means of communication, which "do not seek the transmission of information, seek ideological identification." [1] We have been invaded with its urbanism, which with its imposing roads, buildings and private spaces, helps to isolate the meeting and contact between the inhabitants of the city. The needs and lacks of the citizens are no longer taken into account. Through the media and urban design is encouraged the individualism, people are disconnected from the spaces that go through and from the other people. It fosters fear against the others, discrimination and censorship of those who are different. Spaces have been created where there is no room for reflection and coexistence. The cities have been dehumanized, they have been placed at the service of economic and financial activity. In that sense, I think it is necessary to enable new places of encounter, coexistence, dialogue, exchange of ideas and opinions, recognition of otherness. Public spaces, physical and virtual, are presented as ideal places for this, since they are the spaces o social relations, where we come across different opinions, ways of thinking and acting, with different social classes and cultures‌ are a reflection of the diversity. However, they are also spaces of conflict, each social group and in turn each person has a different perception of the world. This determines that communication is essential for dialogue, generate understanding and reach agreements, without imposing particular interests. Public spaces can and should be places of exchange of information and generators of knowledge. I think art can contribute to it. The sound and the listen I am interested in working with sound for the properties it contains as a means of information and communication. Sounds are social productions, part of the culture where they are produced. "The have concrete meanings" [2] that inform us about where we are, the our of the day, the season of the year, a particular place, etc. The sounds influence the everyday behaviors, "are presented to our ears in multiple ways, with meanings and various messages: words, music, noise, each with their own codes that produce diverse reactions, feelings and sensations", [3] and help us to locate the time, space, and the context in which we find ourselves. "The sounds and noises are necessary in life, are the sign of the presence of another person". [4] However, by various factors, we just pay attention to the sounds. "Although our relationship with the environment depends on the sound stimuli of the environment, whether or not we are aware of it". [5] "An attentive listening of the soundscape allows to pass from a simple description of the sounds to the analysis of the relations that exist between the human being, the sounds and the places". [6] It is necessary to recover and reclaim the listening to generate new ways of relating and understanding our context, "rediscovering dimensions of our daily life little taken into account". [7] "It is necessary to recover and reclaim the importance of sound in everyday life as an element of
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