“Voci migranti” e paesaggio urbano: per una lettura sonora dei processi migratori nel centro storico di Cagliari

Cattedra Raffaele;Tanca Marcello;Gaias Gianluca

2017-01-01

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Abstract

“Migrants’ voices” and urban soundscapes: reading migration processes in Cagliari’s historical center This article presents the first results of a research path which aims to explore at the urban scale the relationships existing between the soundscape of a city space and the migratory phenomenon tending to use, amongst the others, the methodology of soundwalking. Focusing the attention on the practices of urban construction by means of sound, the essay concentrates on the modalities by which migrant subjects take part in the collective and relational process of soundscape construction of the historic centre of Cagliari, re-defining the identity of some places and, furthermore, revealing a certain sense of “sound community”. The investigation identifies four main types of sound spatialities: those of public spaces and daily interactions, those of sacred spaces and rituality, as well as those of commercial spaces and of the relationships with the “elsewhere”. The “migrant voices” we identify are expression of an otherness that manifest an active practice in claiming an implicit right to citizenship, being in their integration process, expression of new forms of urbanity.