He did field work in the Congo for a year, finishing the period with an enlightening two and a half months living with the Mbendjele rainforest pygmies. Born in Quebec City, Bennett grew up in Toronto, Canada, where he completed a customized zoology/environmental science degree at U of Toronto. However, at the same time, those images, which are often so autonomous as to seem disassociated from representation, have altered the way people conceive of architecture hence they seem to have affected the ability and the opportunity to generate visions, and hence theories, that are deeply rooted in our time and, at the same time, receptive to new, possible scenarios.Bennett lives in Bolivia and manages the American Bird Conservancy Brazil program, as well as the Chilean Woodstar program. In the era of global communications, the representation of projects expresses an increasing tendency to develop new capacities to elaborate its very realm of action and to determine new systems of relations, while heading towards something that can be interpreted as a renewal of those persuasive intents that were part of humanistic representationalism. It is also true that the massive production and consumption of architectural images has resulted in a greater proximity to design issues by the general public. They are unable to construct thoughts and a conscience beyond that which is usual, empirical, and visible. It seems that, in the last few years, contemporary architects have lost their ability to pursue grand visions and to construct a broad outlook that engages complex transformations of the built environment. "It is a sort of invitation to an eye-examination, just like the effective graphic image conceived by Gianni Sinni, aimed directly at contemporary architecture. Theme for the ninth edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival, curated by Marco Brizzi, is VISIONS.
The purposes of this article is to describe (a) the general framework of the project (b) the methodology of the ongoing study (collaborative tools, writing and sending a questionnaire) (c) initial developments and results - terminology and definition, translation issues, conception of a database, listing of professionals and different institutions in Europe, first feedback analysis.
The main target concerns the development of a consistent sociological, geographical and historical knowledge of the discipline, and, consequently, to better identify the relevant issues in both artistic, technical or scientific commitment. By means of a large-scale study – based on web documentation, an online questionnaire, interviews and analytical results – the team is working towards understanding the creative process as well as the identity of Sound Design and Sound Designers in particular, in Europe. The team comprises members from the LABEX CAP (Création, Arts et Patrimoines) the ACTE Institute (Arts Creation Theory Aesthetics) IRCAM’s APM (Analysis of Musical Practices) and PDS (Sound Perception and Design) teams. This contribution describes an on-going project started in March 2018 entitled “Analysis of Sound Design Practices”.
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