What did the three dice cast for me?
My three dices: Mapping; Sound & Audacity; Graphic Fashion Design
Noise pollution can be a problem in big city nowadays. I found some map, which can illustrate the noise level of the certain area. this is an useful reference link, it shows the global noise pollution map: http://lukasmartinelli.ch/gis/2016/04/03/openstreetmap-noise-pollution-map.html
We all get used of the noise around us, It might be tempting to think that noise isn’t a serious health issue, after all, it’s just noise. It won’t kill us … right?
Well, exposure to prolonged or excessive noise has been shown to cause a range of health problems ranging from stress, poor concentration, productivity losses in the workplace, and communication difficulties and fatigue from lack of sleep, to more serious issues such as cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, tinnitus and hearing loss.
In 2011 the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report titled ‘Burden of disease from environmental noise’. This study collated data from various large-scale epidemiological studies of environmental noise in Western Europe, collected over a 10-year period.
The studies analysed environmental noise from planes, trains and vehicles, as well as other city sources, and then looked at links to health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, sleep disturbance, tinnitus, cognitive impairment in children, and annoyance.
My initial idea of my final design is to collect the data of noise and transform it to the noise map. Then make a series of collages of every-day clothes ( pants, underwear, hats..) to indicate that the noise around us just like our clothe, we always ignore them but we have to wear them everyday. It is a symbol or the product of modernization and civilianization. I will include the city noise for the background music of my collage, so the viewer can get a sense of it. My goal is to bring people's awareness of noise pollution.
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