PODSCAPE – Sounds & Stories of The City is a creative placemaking engagement tool, a community collaboration platform and a public space catalyst. Comprising of a travelling mobile recording booth and a podcast, it aims to foster a sense of community through the shared experience of recording and preserving the memories and stories of the neighbourhood.
PODSCAPE is returning for its second season at Pasir Ris on 20th and 21st of March 2021! As part of National Arts Council’s Arts In Your Neighbourhood (AYN) programme, this year features a collaboration with sound artist Nathaniel Mah, to create soundscapes with the community, and local musical duo 插班生
The Freshman who will be hosting their very first ‘live’ talk show. Scroll on to find out more!
Drawing inspiration from vintage airstream trailers and train cabins, the POD is designed to be the catalyst to a place. It is also the center of the PODSCAPE pop-up experience where facilitators will invite the community to record and listen to the sounds & stories of their neighbourhood.
With the mobile recording booth at its core, the modular design features additional segments to enable fringe programmes that will spark a shared communal experience. Compact and on-wheels, the POD is also able to pop-up at various spaces in a neighbourhood including town centres, void decks, carparks, and many other locations. In the spirit of placemaking, it is also always evolving thanks to insights gathered from the community at each pop-up!
Interested to have the POD pop up at your space? Drop us an email at podscape@shophouseandco.com
What sounds & stories can we uncover in different parts of the city?
The PODSCAPE podcast explores that question through conversations with the local community, collaborations with creatives, and discussions with urban and cultural practitioners. Each season of the podcast spotlights a particular neighbourhood or part of the city and unravels soundscapes, music, and memories that are unique to the place.
Recorded on-site at the POD during the PODSCAPE pop-up experiences, the podcast is co-created with the community where members of the public are invited to step into the mobile recording booth and be a part of the podcast. The episodes and recordings are also broadcasted during the pop-up experience to transform the act of podcast listening into a communal experience in a public space.
