Soundscape gardens: An evaluation on use of the Northern Ireland hospice’s sound garden installation

Isaac Gibson; Pedro Rebelo; Craig Jackson

doi:10.21606/drs.2022.479

Soundscape gardens: An evaluation on use of the Northern Ireland hospice’s sound garden installation

Isaac Gibson, Pedro Rebelo, Craig Jackson

School of Arts, English and Languages

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The purpose of this paper is to share the results of an evaluation of the Northern Ireland (NI) Hospice’s Sound Garden installation placed at the Somerton Road site in Belfast. The sound gardens are an immersive installation split into three separate garden spaces, each using a combination of outdoor loudspeakers. The Sound Garden is designed to project a growing collection of soundscapes composed by both students, doctoral candidates, and staff from the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast. This evaluation, which took place in late 2019 as part of a Master of Research, uses both pseudonymised questionnaires and on-site observations to determine not only use of the facility, but also the impact that its presence in the hospice can have on patients, relatives, staff, and users of the facility.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DRS2022: Research Papers
Publisher	Design Research Society
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.479
Publication status	Published - 25 Jun 2022

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Name	Proceedings of DRS
Publisher	Design Research Society
ISSN (Print)	2398-3132

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