Novel strategies to handle noise in schools: the potential of soundscape based approach

In schools, sounds and noise can affect the students’ and the teachers’ well being. They are constantly exposed to noise and the latter can create a sound environment that is inadeqaute for the students to study and concentrate properly. This project will explore potential benefits of visual and auditory design to establish with minimal budget and intervention high quality spaces in school-contexts that help in creating an agreeable soundscape in the school. This project has three principle hypothesis (1) visual cues can influence the level of produced speech and as such control the background noise in schools, (2) providing well-designed restorative areas in schools can help students and teachers to cope better with noise exposure through-out the day, and (3) low-cost and highly effective interventions in the class rooms and the school as a whole can be realized through creative use of visual and auditory design.

Faculty Supervisor:

Annelies Bockstael

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Partner:

Ghent University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

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