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Web and smartphone platform Crowdsourcing the Quiet project wins international award
Julian Swallow
August 14, 2012 11:15AM

Sound artist Jason Sweeney with Nick Crowther. Picture: Mark Brake

A COLLABORATIVE "sonic health" project that aims to map the quiet places of Adelaide has won an international award. Crowdsourcing the Quiet is a web and smartphone-based platform where people can find quiet spaces in the city. It has won Adelaide artist Jason Sweeney a Ted Prize, given out by the non-profit organisation that works to foster ideas worldwide. Mr Sweeney is now working with local design studio Freerange Future to develop the final specifications for the app and website, due by June 2013. Previous Ted award winners include U2 frontman Bono, Bill Clinton and Jamie Oliver.

This year, a series of prizes were given to individuals with projects that reimagine the modern city - a grouping known as the City 2.0. Mr Sweeney, who received his award in Edinburgh in June, said he saw his project as a "sonic health service for built environments". Using both website and smart phone applications, it will allow people to geo-tag quiet places in Adelaide. In return, Mr Sweeney will make a short sound piece for that location that can be accessed from the website. With the help of Freerange Future, he believes his idea has potential for use in other cities here and overseas. Aside from its importance as an art project, Mr Sweeney said it could also be used for business. These include as a measure of noise levels for buyers or real estate agents selling residential and commercial property, as well as a data collection tool for councils. Freerange Future managing director Nick Crowther said the studio was also helping to develop branding for the project. Freerange Future would use its diverse range of expertise to help make the project an artistic and a technological success. "Myself and creative director Amy (Amy Milhinch) are quite aesthetic creatures, so we can relate to Jason," he said. "It's a marriage between that art and technology."

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A COLLABORATIVE "sonic health" project that aims to map the quiet places of Adelaide has won an international award.

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Crowdsourcing the Quiet is a web and smartphone-based platform where people can find quiet spaces in the city. It has won Adelaide artist Jason Sweeney a Ted Prize, given out by the non-profit organisation that works to foster ideas worldwide.

Mr Sweeney is now working with local design studio Freerange Future to develop the final specifications for the app and website, due by June 2013.

Tags: Adelaide, Crowdsourcing, Crowdsourcing the Quiet, Freerange Future, Jason Sweeney, sonic health, TED Prize

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