Boxing the mNAP (a mobile Noise Abatement Pod for raising awareness of the effects of noise pollution)

装箱 mNAP（一种移动降噪吊舱，用于提高人们对噪音污染影响的认识）

• 批准号: AH/M005658/1
• 负责人: Michael Edwards
• 金额: $ 2.53万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM005658%2F1
• 关键词: Boxing; mNAP; mobile; Noise; Abatement

This collaborative project - involving a composer, architect, community-building project manager / development scholar, film maker, electronics engineer and graphic designer - aims to draw public attention to the levels of noise pollution in Indian cities, with a particular focus on Delhi, which is now considered one of the top 10 mega-cities in the world. Building on work undertaken as part of the UnBox Labs in Ahmedabad, India, in February/March 2014, it aims to raise people's awareness of the problem of noise pollution. Whilst peace and quiet are essential to rest and recuperation, city traffic and other noise pollution can deleteriously affect human health by raising blood pressure and heart rate, disturbing sleep, and causing hearing loss or in extreme cases deafness. We propose the building of an experimental device, the mobile Noise Abatement Pod (mNAP). This device, a soundproof box on the back of a pedal-powered bicycle rickshaw, will be used as a 'social condenser': an object that will attract attention in its own right; will invite participants to comment on their experience of it and their desires for the sonic landscape of the future of their city; and will act as a container for people to immerse themselves into the soundscape of contemporary life in both rural and urban contexts (and thus from quiet to loud) in order to raise awareness of the disruptive effects of high levels of noise. Through online and other documentation, through presentation at the UnBox Festival in Delhi, and by offering the sound installation and mNAP designs online, we hope to leave a legacy that will inform and energise other organisations and groups to campaign for a quieter, more healthy environment in other cities around India and the world.

这一合作项目涉及作曲家，建筑师，社区建设项目经理/发展学者，电影制片人，电子工程师和平面设计师，旨在引起公众对印度城市噪音污染水平的关注，特别关注德里，它现在被认为是世界十大特大城市之一。在2014年2月/3月印度阿赫梅达巴德UnBox实验室工作的基础上，该项目旨在提高人们对噪音污染问题的认识。虽然和平与宁静是必不可少的休息和恢复，城市交通和其他噪音污染会通过提高血压和心率，干扰睡眠，并导致听力损失或在极端情况下耳聋，对人类健康产生有害影响。我们建议建立一个实验装置，移动的噪音消除吊舱（mNAP）。这个装置是一个安装在脚踏人力车后面的隔音箱，将被用作“社会凝聚器”：一个本身就能吸引注意力的物体;将邀请参与者评论他们的体验以及他们对城市未来声音景观的渴望;并将作为一个容器，让人们沉浸在农村和城市背景下的当代生活声景中（因此从安静到大声），以提高人们对高噪音破坏性影响的认识。通过在线和其他文档，通过在德里UnBox Festival上的演示，并通过在线提供声音安装和mNAP设计，我们希望留下一个遗产，将通知和激励其他组织和团体，以在印度和世界其他城市争取更安静，更健康的环境。

项目成果

'If I was King of India I would Get All the Horns Out of Cars': A Qualitative Study of Sound in Delhi

“如果我是印度国王，我会把所有汽车喇叭都关掉”：德里声音定性研究

• DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12470
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Patsarika M