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

这个合作项目包括作曲家、建筑师、社区建设项目经理/发展学者、电影制作人、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，尤其关注德里，它现在被认为是世界十大特大城市之一。2014年2月至3月，UnBox实验室在印度艾哈迈达巴德开展了一项工作，旨在提高人们对噪音污染问题的认识。虽然和平和安静对休息和恢复至关重要，但城市交通和其他噪音污染会对人体健康产生有害影响，导致血压和心率升高，干扰睡眠，导致听力丧失，甚至在极端情况下导致耳聋。我们建议建立一个实验装置，移动降噪舱（mNAP）。这个装置是一辆脚踏动力的人力车后面的一个隔音箱，它将被用作“社交聚氯乙烯”：一个能吸引人们注意力的物体；邀请参加者就他们的体验和他们对城市未来声音景观的渴望发表意见；它将作为一个容器，让人们沉浸在农村和城市环境中的当代生活的声景中（从而从安静到嘈杂），以提高人们对高水平噪音破坏性影响的认识。透过网路及其他纪录，在德里的UnBox节上展示，以及在网路上提供声音装置和mNAP设计，我们希望留下遗产，让其他组织和团体了解并激励他们，在印度和世界其他城市争取更安静、更健康的环境。

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.