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Storytelling often comprises an auditory component, when narrated orally, or when accompanied by music, drumming, or digital decibels or bytes. Soundscapes may acquire a spatial dimension contributing to stories of spaces, and spatialization of stories, eventually characterizing urban landscapes and communities. In the session titled, Soundscapes and the Story of Place, Vincent Andrisani and David Drury, discuss the opportunities and challenges of documenting and designing urban acoustic environments with emerging tools and technologies, which open up possibilities of realistic acoustic simulation and auralization, facilitating immersive recording and reproduction of acoustic environments, soundscapes and stories of places.

“Negotiating Digital Space in Culturally Significant Storytelling” is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary webinar series organized by the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats in association with the Bachelor of Media Production and Design Program, School of Journalism, Carleton University (Ottawa) and the Bachelor of Interior Design Program, Algonquin College (Ottawa). The seven-part webinar series, supported by a SSHRC Connection Grant, runs from June 16 to July 28 and will explore the multi-faceted concept of storytelling and how digital technology is expanding on the storytelling toolkit. While digital tools bring new ways to tell stories and remove limitations of access, a multitude of ethical and technical issues arise – such as those of ownership, appropriation, inclusion, and dissemination.