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Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren

Associate professor | Senior lecturer

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren

Sound of Democracy : Towards the democratisation of standards for soundscapes

Author

  • Sandra Kopljar
  • Philip Dodds
  • Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
  • Sanne Krogh Groth
  • Clara Gustafsson
  • Marie Koldkjær Højlund
  • Kristoffer Mattisson
  • Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
  • Enrico Ronchi

Summary, in English

With this paper and the accompanying audio paper, our aim is to explore the juxtaposition of sound and democracy. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of this field, we approach it through the notion of care and an empirical analysis of democratic implications of trying to regulate sound in public spaces. We examine standards as one example of the many attempts to control sound in both public and private spaces. Standards are used to categorize, govern, and control. They are also tools to assess and characterise. As policy tools they raise democratic questions relating to who developed them, when and how they are used. Using the example of a shopping mall, we explore the democratic values reflected in the standards through their development and application through an inter-disciplinary perspective. We used the audio paper format to move from discussing the process of developing the soundscape standards to applying them in a real-world setting, ultimately exploring the consequences of such standards from the perspective of democratic values. The present written paper is a longer elaboration on methodology and theory as a compliment to the audio paper which develops the discussion and analysis.

Department/s

  • Architecture and Culture
  • LTH Profile Area: Water
  • Division of Ethnology
  • Musicology
  • Sound Environment Centre
  • Division of Musicology and Intermedia Studies
  • Traffic Safety and Behaviour
  • Fire Safety Engineering (M.Sc.)
  • Division of Fire Safety Engineering
  • CIRCLE
  • Planetary Health
  • Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University
  • Centre for Retail Research at Lund University
  • Marketing
  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Pages

5461-5472

Publication/Series

Inter-Noise 2024 : Proceedings of the 53rd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering Nantes, France, 25-29 2024

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects (including Human Aspects of ICT)
  • Cultural Studies

Conference name

53rd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, Internoise 2024

Conference date

2024-08-25 - 2024-08-29

Conference place

Nantes, France

Status

Published

Project

  • Sound of Democracy: How everyday sound environments support, reflect and deflect democratic values - Theme Pufendorf IAS
  • Centre for Retail Research at Lund University

Research group

  • Architecture and Culture
  • Traffic Safety and Behaviour
  • Planetary Health

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 979-833132215-1