Drawing Together #70: Acoustic Geographies
The Drawing Together community gathered on Zoom October 26, 2025. Our host was Ebru Ustundag. Ebru is a critical feminist geographer who examines the intersections of health care and social justice. She is an Associate Professor of Geography at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, and a member of the graduate faculty in the interdisciplinary Social Justice and Equity Studies MA program. Ebru co-chairs the Graphic Medicine International Collective Board and serves as a co-editor of the journal ACME: International Journal of Critical Geographies.
Our Drawing Together topic was acoustic geographies. Per Ebru,
“Acoustic geographies refer to the study of sound and listening as spatial, social, and political phenomena — how sound shapes our experiences of place, and how places, in turn, shape what and how we hear. Acoustic epistemologies can also facilitate our understanding of how sound can be a site of resistance, but also control and domination. This month’s acoustic landscapes exercise encourages us to listen to the world as a way of understanding and representing it—expanding our sense of geography beyond what we see, towards what we hear, feel, and sense with ourselves and other beings, including non-human animals.”
Introduction and warmup exercise:
Main exercise:
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