1. For this workshop, I chose a nature reserve near London (Windsor Hill), a place where endangered plants grow (Red Helleborine), and I took the participants on a field trip.

2. Participants observed the surrounding environment while hiking, and then described the sounds and content they hear, guessed the sounds of insects and birds, and consider possible connections between these organisms and endangered plants. Then, participants used microphones to record the sounds of different insects and birds.

3. At the end of the workshop, everyone shared their recorded sounds together. Finally, I mixed these sounds into a soundtrack and sent it to everyone as a result of the joint efforts that day.

 

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Outcomes

 

In this workshop, I took the participants to a place to listen to sounds for a period of time during the hiking process, and let them did listening exercises to nature, described the content they heard. I use this exercise to let the participants to better focus on the sounds in nature.

The final product of the workshop is a collaborative soundtrack, it combined the sounds recorded by participants during the hiking process, allowing future audiences to think of the ecological environment around endangered plants while listening to this sound.

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Process video and feedback