Kathrin Wildner -Soundscapes in Detroit

Research Resident in the Summer of 22

Berlin-based urban anthropologist Kathrin Wildner explores and maps soundscapes of cities. As FILTER Detroit´s first summer resident since the COVID-19 pandemic she has been invited to search for the diverse sounds and voices of the Campau/Banglatown neighborhood and beyond. Kathrin Wildner is an urban anthropologist who explores the "production of the city" through sound mapping and other ethnographic methods to approach the complex relatedness and multi-layered levels of planning, use and perception in urban space (http://www.kwildner.net). As an urban researcher, she has realized projects in Bogotá, Mexico City, Istanbul, New York and Marseille, among others, dealing with the geographies of sound.

As a collector of sounds and images, she is always in search of the city´s soundscapes. Walking, talking, listening, observing, taking notes and images, are tools that Wildner engages in while capturing diverse perspectives of sounds.

During her three week residency Wildner has been exploring the local soundscape through soundwalks and field recordings, following the interplay of architectures, institutions, actors, discourses, and narratives that shape the neighborhood and the city of Detroit. Together with FILTER Detroit she plans to produce a soundscape map of and about Campau/ Banglatown and Hamtramck. Explore her findings:

Detroit Soundblog Kathrin Wildner

Kathrin Wildner's stay has been kindly supported by Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany.