About us
Since 2009:
This website is edit by: Antonella Radicchi
Web content manager: Antonella Radicchi
Web developer: Ermanno La Commare
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Since 2011, August, with the istitutional support of:
* Tempo Reale - Center for Music Production, Research and Education of Florence (IT)
http://www.temporeale.it/index.php
http://www.musicaelettronica.it/
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Since 2013, January, FirenzeSoundMap's dataset is listed as Immaterial cultural goods and linked at
http://opendata.comune.fi.it/beni_culturali_immateriali/dataset_0305.html
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Antonella is an architect and researcher in urban design. She undertook doctoral research both at the SA+P, MIT (USA) and at the Faculty of Architecture, Florence (IT). Her dissertation "On the sonic image of the city” was awarded of the 2010 INU Award, for the best dissertation in Urbanism, and the 2012 Research Award – City of Florence, for the best dissertations to be published. Antonella has taught and lectured both in Italy and abroad, and since 2011 she collaborates in research projects with Tempo Reale, Center for Music Research and Education.
She has 7 years teaching experience at the university level, and since 2012 she has been Adjunct Professor at Kent State University in Florence.
Her theoretical and design research involves three long-term themes, related to “Sensuous Urbanism” and focused on:
- the role of the non-visual senses in environmental perception, and the value of such knowledge in urban design;
- the study of urban soundscapes to achieve the design of both physical and sonic urban spaces;
- the importance of intangible and emotional relationships between sounds and humans and the use of such knowledge in urban design.
In her doctoral thesis, Antonella defines a new field of research, called "sensuous urbanism" that was born in the Fifties thanks to the studies did by Kevin Lynch and Gyorgy Kepes at MIT, she explores the potentialities of the soundscapes design in the urban renewal, and gives some methodological strategies to integrate Soundscape Studies in the field of Urbanism.Finally, she proposes two tools to realize the synthesis of both the physical and the sonic space in the design of the contemporary city:
- the tender sound map
- the sonic niche.
Her interests: people, unconscious mind, cities (hopefully designing better ones), soundscapes and music as well, the Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater n> Wuppertal, Michael Ackerman, Lorenzo Castore, and Letizia Battaglia’s photography, vinyl discs, Italian director Marco Bellocchio’s movies, subways and streetcars, sunny and windy days, sensual yet strong curves made by the architect Oscar Niemeyer. The Lego room at MediaLab (MIT), the mistral’s whistle, sea breezes… in progress…
| To download her CV and Portfolio, email at: info@firenzesoundmap.org |
A special thank to ny sound map, montreal sound map, Gokce Kinayoglu for providing inspiration for this project.
