Site Visit: Sailortown

Photos of today's trip down to our chosen site: Sailortown, which was once a thriving residential community of dockland workers. We spent the afternoon documenting the soundscape of the area through recording, sketching and photographing.

Sailortown

The site in Belfast that is to be the focus of our sound map will be Sailortown. This is an area located beside the shipyards and used to be a thriving community of Dockland workers and their families. Over the last few decades this area has become less and less populated as the ship industry in Belfast declined. We hope to examine the soundscape of this historical part of the city and bring its voice to life.

Recomposing the City: Creating a Sound Map

The Street Society programme has in recent years become an annual part of architectural studies in Queen's University Belfast. This programme consists of a week long collaboration between first year undergraduate and masters students who complete projects for various clients in Northern Ireland.

Our project brief is to work alongside the Sonic Research Centre in Queen's to produce a sound map focusing on an area of social deprivation in Belfast. This map will form a part of the continuous work and research being done by Recomposing the City: Sonic Art and Urban Architecture, a collaboration between various faculties at Queen's. 

We plan to use this page to document our analysis, ideas and progress over the next week.