Bates, Victoria, Hickman, Clare, Manchester, Helen, Prior, Jonathan  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-8025 and Singer, Stephanie
2020.
Beyond landscape’s visible realm: Recorded sound, nature, and wellbeing.
Health and Place
61
, 102271.
10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102271
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Abstract
This article draws on an AHRC/EPSRC funded project called ‘A Sense of Place: Exploring nature and wellbeing through the non-visual senses’. The project used sound and smell technologies, as well as material textures and touch, to ask: what does ‘wellbeing’ mean for people in relation to the non-visual aspects of nature, and how might technology play a role in promoting it (if at all)? This article takes recorded sound as a case study. It argues that recorded soundscapes should be understood on their own terms rather than as ‘less than’ or a simulation of natural environments. They have specific value in creating space for imagination, particularly when delivered with care and as part of the co-creation of sensory experience. Overall, the article argues that the value of emerging immersive technologies is not to simulate nature better. An ‘immersive experience’ is richest when it allows for – and reveals – the nuances and complexities of individual responses to natural environments.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1353-8292 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 8 January 2020 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 12 December 2019 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2023 08:36 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128358 |
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