What does the COVID-19 pandemic sound like?

For this episode, Dallas Rogers – a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney – asked academic colleagues from all over the world to open up the voice recorder on their phones and record a two minute report from the field about their city.

Many of those who responded to the call are struggling, just like us, to make sense of their experience in the COVID-19 city.

The resulting stories reflect on hygiene, disease, quarantine, social control and the urban environment from cities around the world.

If you want to hear all the stories in full, you can find them here, and read more about the project here.

Contributors

Roger Keil (@rkeil), Professor at York University

Jason Byrne (@CityByrne), Professor at the University of Tasmania

Kurt Iveson (@kurtiveson), Associate Professor at the University of Sydney

Tanja Dreher (@TanjaDreher), Associate Professor at the University of NSW

Carolyn Whitzman (@CWhitzman), Professor and Bank of Montreal Women’s Studies Scholar at the University of Ottawa

Tooran Alizadeh (@DrTooran), Associate Professor at the University of Sydney

Eugene McCann (@EJMcCann), Professor at Simon Fraser University

Beth Watts (@BethWatts494), a Senior Research Fellow at Heriot-Watt University

Amanda Kass (@Amanda_Kass), PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Elle Davidson, Aboriginal Planning Lecturer at the University of Sydney

Creighton Connolly (@Creighton88), Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln

Kelly Dombroski (@DombroskiKelly), Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury

Kate Murray (@katiemelbourne), Connected Cities Lab at the University of Melbourne

Em Dale (@carnivoresetal), at Oxford University

Matt Novacevski (@places_calling), PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne

Mirjam Büdenbender (@MBuedenbender), advisor to the chair of the social-democratic parliamentary group in Berlin

Natalie Osborne (@DrNatOsborne), Lecturer at Griffith University

Ash Alam (@urbanmargin), Lecturer at University of Otago

Cameron Murray (@DrCameronMurray), Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sydney

Deepti Prasad (@Deepti_Prasad_), PhD candidate at the University of Sydney

Madeleine Pill (@pillmad), Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield

Matt Wade, (@geminidluxe), Post-doctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore is with Renae Johnson, an independent artist, in Singapore

Susan Caldis (@SusanCaldis), PhD candidate at Macquarie University

Paul Maginn (@Planographer), Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia

Music Credits

Crop circles by Craft Case, Inspri8ion by Pulsed, The city below by Marten Moses, Someone else’s memories by So Vea. https://www.epidemicsound.com/

Theme beats by Unkle Ho from Elefant Traks.

Production credits

Project coordinated by Dallas Rogers.

Audio edited by Miles P. Herbert, with additional audio editing by Wes Mountain.

Lead image

AAP/EPA/ANDY RAIN

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