{"id":652,"date":"2023-01-25T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petermbach.com\/?page_id=652"},"modified":"2023-10-28T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T12:36:59","slug":"004-sofia-boarino","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/petermbach.com\/index.php\/podcast\/004-sofia-boarino\/","title":{"rendered":"TGC Podcast Episode 004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Grand Challengers Podcast Episode #4<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Good vibrations – a sensorial journey into urban soundscapes and acoustic design<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Guest: Sofia Boarino<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

February 14th, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI think it is quite crazy that we live in a world that is designed for deaf people when the strongest sense we have is hearing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In the face of an unpredictable future, we are all called upon each and every day to think of out-of-the box ways to tackle challenges to our environment, wellbeing or how to enjoy that Beethoven symphony at your noisy train station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My guest today is Sofia Boarino, an architect and musician who also goes by the name of Loto. Sofia obtained her architectural masters degree in urban soundscapes at the Academy of Architecture Mendriso in Switzerland and has been experimenting with how sound design can create more vibrant, healthy and comfortable places while also linking humans with nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s show is truly an assault on the senses as we explore the intricacies of urban soundscapes from the landscape, biological and human dimensions. We discuss the need for a shift from a visually dominated society to one that embraces the vibrations of sound.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sofia Boarino is an architect, researcher and sound artist who explores the relationship between sound, space and perception. She obtained her Master’sdegree in Architecture at the AAM – USI Accademiadi Architettura in Mendrisio in 2020 with the project “Hit the Beat”, which experimented the relationship between architecture and music. Her work won the SwissEngineeringTicino Prize in 2021 and was exhibited at the Chiasso\u2019s Cultural Center in the same year. During her studies she also attended the PUCP University in Lima as an exchange student and specialised in acoustics with Professor Carlos Jimenez. During and after university, she gained experience through multiple collaborations in France, Italy, Switzerland and America, where she worked as an architect in several architecture and art studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2017 she has been conducting interdisciplinary research that situates in-between art and science, exploring the themes of mechanical, biological and acoustic resonance in correlation with spaces, landscapes and cities, culminating in an in-depth investigation on sound architecture and neuroarchitecture. In 2018 she patented her first architectural project \u201cSounds of Etna\u201d, and in 2019 she became a fellow of the American foundation Madworkshop (L.A.), with which she realised her first project \u201cT\u00e9menos\u201d. In 2021 an essay on her project \u201cSound Greenfall – A musical courtship between plants and humans\u201d was published in the 15th edition of the journal Horizonte Weimar, and in 2022 she lectured at the Acoustic Niche Workshop held by the Christophe Girot Chair at ETH Zurich. In the same year she worked as a sound performer at the Metareale exhibition for Fuorisalone Design Week in Milano, and was selected from a group of experts to participate in an international course on neuroarchitecture organised by the American association ANFA – The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture. She currently lives and works in Zurich as an architect and sound performer and she recently became a member of X=(T=E=N) Studio. [Source: SofiaBoarino.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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