On Saturday October 5th, a TEDx-event was held in La Rochelle, France. As previously announced, this event featured a presentation on the importance of good acoustics for people by Yoan Le-Muet. The presentation is now available on YouTube! Click the above image to watch it.
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Round Table: Future Office Workspace, HD Movies
On September 25th, 09:00-11:00, a round table session was held in Malmö, Southern Sweden.HD movies are now online. Click image above to see the summary video! The conclusion was that the main driving forces for the office of 2020 were: 1. Leadership and corporate culture 2. Empowered employees 3. Flexibility 4. Technology 5. Company Identity […]
Video interview with sound book author Anders Mildner
Anders Mildner, a Swedish musician, journalist and author, has written a nice and accessible book about sound (currently only available in Swedish), and it headlines the London blackbird that rose to fame as it sounded just like an ambulance. Acoustic Bulletin met up with Anders in his office – and made a film where he […]
John Hanlon Interview at EFMC 2013
Paige Hodsman, Concept Developer Office UK, discusses with John Hanlon about the importance of productivity, how acoustic is linked to it, and where the responsibilities should be. John was a speaker at the conference and held a session on May 23rd called “How the Facility Manager can influence Workplace Productivity” “Facilities managers understand that their […]
Interview with Wolfgang Babisch
The Lund University Sound Environment Center hosted the “Noise and disease” symposium in Lund, which featured presentations background and present status of noise research (see more info here). Sara Holmqvist, concept developer and Acoustic Bulletin editor took the opportunity to talk to key note speaker Dr Wolfgang Babisch about his research from the early stages […]
Fun Balloon Pops can make robust acoustic data easy to understand!
As recently demonstrated at some of the Sound Education events – what better way to demonstrate different acoustic treatments and the associated room responses perceived! Following some recent EDUnet field work, here are some short comparison examples from Essex Study classrooms. A quick and simple way to explain the impact of increasing the amount of […]
Groundbreaking series of four Sound Education international seminars now completed in 2012
The Sound Education*(1) seminars have created a legacy of online resources including filmed presentations on four YouTube playlists per event in local languages, research, study downloads and an App*(5) launched for the events. Moreover, the latest TED talk* by*(4) Julian Treasure has taken the acoustic message to a higher level and highlighted the importance of […]
“Sound Education” events creating debate and awareness
Image: SoundEduTalks YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxlL6pEttMs Mairi Johnson, (above) Deputy Director with the Education Funding Agency in the UK, giving her presentation which was filmed at the first “Sound Education” event in London – brought to you by Ecophon. Mairi reinforces the importance of acoustic standards in the Priority School Building Programme, and outlines government plans for […]
“Why architects need to use their ears” – TED talk
Julian Treasure’s latest TED talk “Why architects need to use their ears” published last night, challenges architects and all of us to design spaces for our ears. He focuses on acoustic issues in Schools and Hospitals, whilst challenging the world to think and introduce sound designers (acousticians as you are known) earlier in planning stages. […]
Essex Study co author presents at “Sound Education” seminar
Adrian James – AJA Acoustics Two days after the launch of the Essex Study, Adrian was asked to be an additional speaker at the “Sound Education” seminar in London last month. Adrian is co author of the Essex study along with David Canning. Click here for Essex study full report and/or summary report.
