Archive

In this workshop, organised in collaboration with Rewire Outreach, participants explore their environment through field recording, audio journaling and collective soundmapping. It is an introduction to documenting the world from an auditory perspective, inviting you to tune into subtle details, hidden rhythms and sonic stories that usually remain unnoticed.

Through guided listening exercises and collaborative mapping techniques, the group builds a shared sound map of the surroundings. This process brings together soundscape, narrative and personal experience, offering a creative way to explore how we relate to the environments we inhabit. By listening closely, participants uncover layers of meaning that shape a place and the stories it holds. The workshop is connecting with outreach communities through collective listening and recording.

The workshop is facilitated by sound artist and educator Robin Koek, co-founder of Environments. His artistic practice explores sound and listening as forms of more than human empathy, collective imagination and sensory awareness. Through interactive audio, immersive installations and spatial composition, he examines how technology can support interspecies communication, aural heritage and environmental connection as tools for communal sonic worldbuilding.

This workshop is part of the broader practice of Environments, an organisation that empowers a new generation of change makers. Through accessible creative education, Environments fosters ecological awareness, creative agency and leadership. Their programmes amplify underrepresented voices and span disciplines such as music, film, podcasting, research and urban planning. Each programme creates immersive learning experiences that encourage participants to actively engage with creativity, ecology and sound, deepening their connection to the environment and to their communities.