El paisaje sonoro en los procesos de transición energéticauna propuesta crítica

Abstract

The current environmental, energy and geopolitical crisis, aswell as the health emergency we recently suffered with the COVID 19 pandemic, invite us to rethink our habits and lifestyles. Focusing efforts on responding to this crisis, within current energy models and sources, without an in‐depth critical review of consumption criteria, is not enough. Rethinking our relationship with the environment, recognizing ourselves as part of a network of inhabitants of the earth in the flow of time can help us to overcome the current dominant extractive logic. This transformation requires new research that takes into account the complexity of the relationship between human beings and the environment, taking into account social, cultural and ecological relationships in order to better face contemporarychallenges. It is also necessary to create new networks of connection between disciplines, thus consolidating a multidisciplinary thinking already widely accepted in our scientific culture but not always implemented in practical terms, in a scientific world marked by disciplinary fragmentation. Engineering, social sciences, art and humanities have to find new ways of dialogue and collaboration to enable a profound transformation and a real sustainability of our relationship with the environment. With this article we propose the value of sound and the sensory in thisprocess of critical review and redefinition of the relationship betweenhuman beings and nature. We highlight the importance of developing methodologies that take into account the sonorous, the subjective, the emotional, components of a sustainability of social order, and in our senses. Our sensitive experience “situates” us in our environment, it is our link with the environment. Listening is an essential and radical exercise of exploration of this relationship, of our belonging to the environment and of our capacity (and responsibility) to transform it.