Explore the Binckhorst with your ears!
On 7 November, we organised a listening walk through the Binckhorst for visitors to the Binckmarkt XL in the Caballero Factory in The Hague. The Binckmarkt XL was organised by the Municipality of The Hague to allow residents and interested parties to have a say in what the Binckhorst should look like in 2050. Also important:
What should the Binckhorst sound like in 2025?
To discuss this, interested parties could join the Soundtrackcity listening walk. During the walk, participants listened to the soundscape of an area where people live, work and build close together. How can you combine living and working? How do you achieve a good noise balance between activity, housing and recreation? We discussed this during the walk.
The participants wrote down their auditory impressions along the way on colourful cards. These impressions form valuable input for our artistic research into the auditory outdoor space of the Binckhorst. A research we will do in 2024 and 2025 as part of the European cooperation project Sound UP.
