18/09/2026
🎹 What if you were a musical instrument moving through the city? Or, if a city could be turned into music, what would it sound like?
WORKSHOP Placemaking Europe | Wrocław, Poland
Next week, Kelly Hickler, AICP and I will lead an outdoor session in which participants will explore Wrocław through sound, sight, touch and smell.
Moving through contrasting urban spaces, each participant will translate sensory impressions and emotional responses into words and musical symbols, collectively composing a unique “Symphony of the Senses.”
At the end each sensory score will be transformed into a unique musical composition and shared, allowing them to hear what their personal experience sounds like.
Going from to , the resulting musical and graphic compositions can surely provide valuable qualitative material for neuroscience-informed research, especially when combined with self-reported experiences and appropriate physiological or neurocognitive measures. The goal is to investigate how different urban spaces influence human well-being and if there is any room for improvements.
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Neuroscience Neuroarchitecture SensoryUrbanism HumanCenteredDesign PublicSpace UrbanWellbeing Wroclaw