The workshop will take the form of a guided sound walk in a group. During the walk, led by a mentor, participants will reactivate their ears and pay attention to any sound they might perceive. Attention will also be paid to other accompanying multisensory perceptions and previous experiences in urban spaces. After the walk, participants will be invited to share their impressions and thoughts in the form of a moderated discussion as well as to evaluate and reflect on their experiences in writing. The aim of the “walkshop” is to raise awareness of the changing soundscape in urban space and to collectively reflect on the experiences.

Duration: 60 minutes, including a short introductory presentation of the workshop, a group soundwalk and a moderated discussion.

Working languages: English and Serbian

The number of workshop participants is limited.

Applications for participation should be sent to: sara.nikolic@instifdt.bg.ac.rs.

Application deadline: April 12

Workshop mentors:

Blaž Bajič is an assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana. Since completing his doctoral studies in 2017, he has participated as a researcher in a project at the University of Oslo in TRACES (2016-2019) and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Eastern Finland within the SENSOTRA project (2017-2021). His main research interests include sensory practices, environment, leisure and popular culture, as well as methodological and epistemological aspects of cultural anthropology. He recently co-edited two collections, “Senses of Cities: Anthropology, Art, Sensory Transformations” (Muršič, Bajič and Abram in Preparation) and “Views of Three Valleys” (Bajič, Svetel and Zavratnik 2021). He is the current president of the Slovenian Ethnological and Anthropological Society KULA.

Sandi Abram holds a PhD in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Eastern Finland. As a young researcher, he was employed on the SENSOTRA project. He is the founder and program director of the Institute for Urban Affairs and the director of the Festival of Street Arts in Ljubljana. His research interests include aestheticization, sensory anthropology, urban anthropology, non-institutional creative practices, and multimodal and engaged ethnography. As a postdoctoral fellow, he is employed at the Peace Institute within the project Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe “From Below” Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies, and Transnational Networks.

Rajko Muršić is a full professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Ljubljana. During the eighties and nineties, he worked as a freelance journalist and editor, and then as the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Glasnik slovenačkog etnološkog društva and its collection of monographs (1994-1997). He was the founder and first editor of the series of monographs Županičeva knjižnica (1999-2002). He is a member of more than a dozen international and regional professional associations (IUAES, EASA, IASPM), the founder is a member of the Slovenian Ethnological and Anthropological Society Kula, he is active in organizing international conferences and summer schools (Mess; Easa; The Konitsa Summer School; Border Crossings Network). His main research interests include epistemology and methodology, anthropology of popular music, urban anthropology, sensory anthropology, and theories of practice.