NAVET at Konstfack Research Week 2023

Konstfack Research Week 2023 - Closing Events
Friday 27 January, 10.00-12.00
Location: Svarta Havet, Konstfack

NAVET - Centre for research in Art, Technology and Design

NAVET wants to take a leading role in positioning Sweden within the intersectional area “Art, Technology and Design”, with a practical and critical approach that stimulates research, innovation, creativity, and the development of a sustainable society. This session includes two interactive workshops proposed by two of the new NAVET Thematic Working Groups: Too Loud and Too Bright  and .

Workshop 1: "My sounds"

The Too Loud and Too Bright working group invites you to a workshop about your personal sound experiences. Before or also during the workshop you are invited to upload representations of your sound experiences:

• What is the first sound that you remember?
• What is the most beautiful (or good) sound that you remember?
• What is the most ugly (or bad) sound that you remember?
• What is a sound that represents Stockholm?
• If you are not from Stockholm: what is the sound that represents your birthplace?
• What is the sound representing your personal sonic environment?

You can use any form (such as sound sample, recorded vocal sketch, or drawing) and upload your sounds using this Google form.

Too Loud and Too Bright   investigates how human intervention on primordial landscapes and overexposure to human created sounds and lights have influenced our most used senses when it comes to fruition of night skies and eco-sounds: our eyes and our hearing. Light and sound research, including light and sound perception, lighting and sound design, and light and sound influence on health and environment are at the core of the research, both from scientific and artistic perspectives. Light and sound and their combination are crucial aspects of the unbuilt/natural and/or built environment. Both light and sound “(ab)use” are main factors defining anthropized areas.

Workshop 2: Design of future urban spaces making use of musical sounds

The workshop is about how design of future urban spaces could involve musical sounds. Should electric vehicles be aesthetically pleasing or provide a musical backdrop? How do we design for all? This initiative comes from a finished NAVET Small Visionary Project called Ficticious Soundscapes .

 aims at giving research focus to three foundations for accessibility with respect to music practices: inclusion, digitalisation, and sustainability. Each of these aspects pose major challenges on our many publicly funded institutions that work with music in one way or another. Music for All targets access to all stages of music production and experiences, from composition, technology development, musical practices, performance, and distribution.