Datenschutz

Be-MoVe


Soundwalks (“Hörspaziergänge”) in October 2022

 

As part of Be-MoVe project, the Institute for Urban Public Health (InUPH) studies urban acoustic environments, how they are perceived and evaluated by people, and how the quality of stay is influenced by them. To answer these questions, InUPH conducts Soundwalks in Essen Holsterhausen and the city center in Essen.

Soundwalks are one-hour walks during which participants walk along a set route, stopping at certain places to listen carefully. A questionnaire is then used to assess what was heard, e.g. whether it is loud or pleasant.

Below you will find the dates for the Soundwalks in Holsterhausen and the city center.

If you would also like to participate in a Soundwalk, simply send an e-mail with your preferred date to:

Be-MoVe@uk-essen.de or call us at 0201-723 77219.

After registration, you will receive all information about the exact meeting point and schedule from us.

 

Dates Holsterhausen

October 2022

Time

Tue 18.10.2022

6 pm

Thu 20.10.2022

6 pm

Tue 25.10.2022

6 pm

Thu 27.10.2022

6 pm

Dates inner City

October 2022

Time

Tue 04.10.2022

6 pm

Wed 05.10.2022

6 pm

Thu 06.10.2022

6 pm

Fri 07.10.2022

6 pm

Mon 10.10.2022

6 pm

Tue 11.10.2022

6 pm

Wed 12.10.2022

6 pm

Thu 13.10.2022

6 pm

Project

In Essen, as in many other cities in the Ruhr region, the expansion of car-oriented infrastructure has been the main focus in recent decades. Active forms of mobility such as cycling and walking have fallen by the wayside. As part of the BMBF's "MobilitätsWerkStadt 2025" funding program, the city of Essen wants to transform its public spaces and traffic routes and sustainably design them for quality of stay and mobility for all. Particular focus is being placed on pedestrian traffic, which still receives far too little attention as an independent form of mobility. In the first phase of the project, the city of Essen worked together with stakeholders from the field of pedestrian traffic to identify various problem areas and develop strategies and measures for specific weak points in the urban area (see imobis project "MobilitätWerkStadt Essen 25").

The second phase is all about implementation: The “Grüne Hauptstat Agentur”(GHA, City of Essen), the Institute for Mobility and Urban Planning (imobis) and the Institute for Urban Public Health (InUPH) will set up real laboratories in two Essen neighborhoods over the next three years, where different measures will be implemented experimentally over several months. Together with the population, they will test how a change in street spaces, new access to means of transport or technological incentive systems affect local mobility. Particular attention will be paid to the acoustics of street spaces - what influence does urban sound quality have on quality of stay, health and mobility behavior?

 

 

Contact InUPH

Prof. Dr. Susanne Moebus

E-Mail: susanne.moebus@uk-essen.de

 

Funded by:

BMBF: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung