Stabb, Walter, Bastani, Hadi and Bird, Natasha (2024) Audio Playscapes: engaging children and their families in cultural heritage narratives through creative practice. In: London Confrence in Critical Thought, 28-29 Jun 2024, University of Greenwich. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This project aims to re-engage the narrative of brutalist architecture through a participatory audiovisual 2-day workshop in conjunction with the artist-led, Thamesmead-based organisation TACO!. The workshop facilitates a reimagining of cultural heritage by involving young residents in critical engagement with the site through deep listening and creative experiencing.

‘Audioplayscapes’ is a collaboration with children as active creators and consumers of cultural narratives, acknowledging them as agents rather than passive inheritors of cultural heritage. Equipping children with the tools to capture, interpret, and creatively intervene in their environment this project offers a new perspective on a site of cultural significance. Engaging in sound mapping, children will explore, reflect and develop the layered stories of Thamesmead, expressing them through sound and video. University of Greenwich’s state-of-the-art spatial audio and visual reproduction facility provides a stimulating environment for a critical and collaborative evaluation of the experience.

The workshops act as a tactical response to often-rigid sociohistorical narratives, instead promoting a playful, fluid, creative interaction with cultural heritage as a form of critically evaluating the past and re-imagining the future. It challenges the boundaries of who creates cultural heritage narratives and how they are shaped, fostering a dynamic process that can potentially redraw the cultural map in a more inclusive and diversified manner while demonstrating the potency of creative media as both investigative means and social tactic in inviting discourse on the potential futures of our shared urban spaces.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Additional Information:	This is part of the multicomponent output Brutalism Otherwise / Audio Playscapes.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	children, play, creative practice, Brutalism, film, sound, image
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Stage and Screen
Related URLs:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49627/
Last Modified:	18 Feb 2025 09:16
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49633

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