The Sound of Water: sensing a wetland intervention through interactive environmental audio

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI:10.1177/14744740231197813

Mitchell Whitelaw, Skye Wassens, Adrian Mackenzie

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Abstract

The Sound of Water ( https://flow-mer.org.au/napnap ) microsite documents an environmental intervention at Nap Nap Swamp, a wetland in the western reaches of Australia’s Murrumbidgee River. A collaboration between a designer (Whitelaw) and an ecologist (Wassens), it was supported by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office. We use audiovisual data storytelling to engage audiences with Nap Nap as it transitions from a dry to wet state. Focusing on a 9-day period in mid-2020, we combine audio and hydrological data to show the ecosystem’s response to a managed environmental flow, narrating this change through the wetland’s charismatic frog species, including the threatened Southern Bell Frog. In this paper we reflect on the technical and creative contributions of the project in visualising environmental audio, as well as its significance for wider practice. We highlight the value of creatively re-purposing ecological data and the importance of multi-stakeholder networks, and we argue that our celebration in this project of environmental management, intervention and care should be a key concern for future digital ecologies practices.

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水之声:通过互动环境音频感知湿地干预

水之声(https://flow-mer.org.au/napnap)微型网站记录了Nap Nap沼泽的环境干预，这是澳大利亚Murrumbidgee河西部的一片湿地。这是设计师(Whitelaw)和生态学家(Wassens)的合作，得到了联邦环境水务局的支持。我们使用视听数据讲故事来吸引观众，因为它从干燥到潮湿的状态转变。以2020年中期为期9天的研究为重点，我们将音频和水文数据结合起来，展示生态系统对受控环境流的反应，并通过湿地中有魅力的青蛙物种(包括受威胁的南方铃蛙)来叙述这种变化。在本文中，我们反思了该项目在可视化环境音频方面的技术和创造性贡献，以及它对更广泛实践的意义。我们强调创造性地重新利用生态数据的价值和多方利益相关者网络的重要性，我们认为，我们在这个环境管理、干预和关怀项目中的庆祝活动应该成为未来数字生态实践的关键关注点。

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