Listening to the Hospital
| Dates: | 9 May 2024 |
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| Times: | 17:30 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Evening event |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Alex de Little, Joanna Sutton-Klein |
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What does a hospital sound like? How can we listen to hospitals? What do we learn from listening to hospitals? What is the relationship between listening and care?
Join The Care Lab as we discuss these questions and explore the role of listening in helping to understand, challenge and remodel healthcare spaces. In this workshop, you will be introduced to Deep Listening practice, and engage in discussion with others who have experience of the sonic environment in hospitals. In this workshop, we aim to move our listening and discussion beyond the frameworks of ‘loudness’ or ‘noisiness’, to consider the complexity and liveliness of the sounds of the hospital.
This workshop will be led by:
- Alex De Little - a sonic artist and researcher based at the University of Leeds.
- Jo Sutton-Klein - a medical doctor and researcher at the University of Manchester who is interested in exploring and improving the hospital environment.
Earlier in the day, we are hosting two smaller workshops, where a handful of participants will be guided through deep listening practice in more depth, before having a chance to listen directly to a hospital. The participants from these workshops will be involved in the discussion.
Please see this document for more information and to sign up.
Speakers
Alex de Little
Role: Lecturer in Global Performance and Creative Practice
Organisation: School of Performance and Cultural Industries University of Leeds
Joanna Sutton-Klein
Role: Academic Clinical Fellow
Organisation: Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester
Travel and Contact Information
Find event
Care Collections Centre
Whitworth Art Gallery
Oxford Road
Manchester
