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

这个合作项目涉及一名作曲家、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，尤其是目前被认为是世界十大特大城市之一的德里。在2014年2月/3月作为印度艾哈迈达巴德解箱实验室一部分开展的工作的基础上，该项目旨在提高人们对噪音污染问题的认识。虽然和平和宁静对休息和恢复至关重要，但城市交通和其他噪音污染会导致血压和心率升高，扰乱睡眠，导致听力损失或极端情况下耳聋，从而有害地影响人类健康。我们建议建立一个实验装置--移动消噪吊舱(MNAP)。这个装置是一个安装在脚踏车后部的隔音盒，它将被用作“社交冷凝器”：一个本身就会吸引注意力的物体；将邀请参与者评论他们对它的体验以及他们对城市未来声音景观的渴望；它将充当一个容器，让人们沉浸在当代生活的音景中(从安静到吵闹)，以提高人们对高水平噪音的破坏性影响的认识。通过在线和其他文档，通过在德里Unbox音乐节上的演讲，以及通过在线提供音响装置和mNAP设计，我们希望留下一份遗产，为其他组织和团体提供信息和活力，在印度和世界其他城市为更安静、更健康的环境而运动。

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.