CARTONERA TO RECOVERY COMMISSIONED BY ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY DECEMBER 23 A podcast documentary about how Dr Patrick O’Hare, Social Anthropologist at the University of St Andrews, brought Cartonera to Scotland. Cartonera is a publishing

CARTONERA TO RECOVERY
COMMISSIONED BY ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
DECEMBER 23

A podcast documentary about how Dr Patrick O’Hare, Social Anthropologist at the University of St Andrews, brought Cartonera to Scotland.

Cartonera is a publishing movement that grew out of the Argentine economic crisis of 2001. They became known as ‘cartoneros’, after the cartón (cardboard) that they collected on the streets of cities such as Buenos Aires. Since then, the Cartonera model has spread across Latin America and the world.

Patrick initiated the first Cartonera project in Scotland, a collaboration with the Creative Change Collective (CCC), a charity working with people in recovery from addiction and in the criminal justice system. CCC tackles social problems through the creative arts, building community and empowering people, an approach that chimes with the cartonera ethos.

CCC heard about Cartonera and invited Patrick to deliver a series of workshops at which the group would make a Cartonera book out of anonymous drama scripts. Participants would learn a new craft and build on the momentum of their arts-based recovery by creating a book series that could be distributed amongst participants, friends, family, policymakers, and an interested public.

Recorded and Narrated by Patrick O’Hare
Audio Production: Lucia Scazzocchio

ECHOES OF ANGELS COMMISSIONED BY FORE STREET FOR ALL MARCH - JUNE 23 Fore Street For All CIC is an organisation formed through a collaboration between community group Residents of Edmonton Angel Community Together (REACT), Edmonton a

ECHOES OF ANGELS
COMMISSIONED BY FORE STREET FOR ALL
MARCH - JUNE 23

Fore Street For All CIC is an organisation formed through a collaboration between community group Residents of Edmonton Angel Community Together (REACT), Edmonton art organisation Artist Hive Studios and local architects Fisher Cheng.
The hub for this project was the recently re-opened Fore Street Living Room Library where connections, interviews and showcase all took place with busy Fore Street as a constant backdrop.

The recorded conversations with local residents focused on their lived experiences of Angel Edmonton, exploring the past, present and future, to create a current oral history of the area as a tapestry of voices and stories interwoven with sounds from Fore street, Edmunton, North London.

What if a street could talk?

Recording and audio production: Lucia Scazzocchio

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SEA CHANGE AT THE ROYAL DOCKS COMMISSIONED BY INVISIBLE DUST + ROYAL DOCKS MARCH - MAY 23 Sea Change &nbsp;brought artists together with leading academics and University College London inspired by research into sustainable responses t

SEA CHANGE AT THE ROYAL DOCKS
COMMISSIONED BY INVISIBLE DUST + ROYAL DOCKS
MARCH - MAY 23

Sea Change brought artists together with leading academics and University College London inspired by research into sustainable responses to the climate emergency.  

‘Sea Change’ is a term used for a substantial shift in situation or perspective and was first used in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, a play with a background, like the Royal Docks, of sea voyages, developing globalisation and colonialism. Sea Change points to the future, to the need for changing practices, but also alludes to a pivot point of the climate crisis in the dock’s history – the move from sail to steam power. This development led to an enormous expansion in London’s trade and exchange of goods and peoples, which enabled modern day industrialisation, globalisation and with it the problems of climate change. 

Curated by Invisible Dust, artists Dana Olărescu, Raqs Media Collective, Melanie Manchot and Simon Faithfull featured their work at the Royal Docks and Thames Barrier Park between 11-29th May. 

Lucia Scazzocchio produced a series of ‘audio postcards’ exploring each commission, talking with the artists, researchers and collaborators to give context to each piece within the Royal Docks and Thames Barrier Park. An Untold history walk was produced to accompany visitors between the two sites, exploring how the docks have always been a place of mixing and mingling as workers and goods came from overseas via this gateway into the city.

Audio production by Lucia Scazzocchio

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SOUNDS OF THE UNDERLINE - DLR UNDERLINE ACTIVATION COMMISSIONED BY LBTH REGENERATION TEAM: SEP 21 - JULY 22 The Isle of Dogs &amp; South Poplar area is dramatically changing. It will see some of the densest and tallest residential devel

SOUNDS OF THE UNDERLINE - DLR UNDERLINE ACTIVATION
COMMISSIONED BY LBTH REGENERATION TEAM: SEP 21 - JULY 22

The Isle of Dogs & South Poplar area is dramatically changing. It will see some of the densest and tallest residential development in the UK come forward over the next 15 years. The area has been identified by the Council as one in which change should be managed to secure growth brings benefits for the local communities.

The DLR is an important piece of infrastructure not only as it keeps the area connected, but also as the space under the tracks holds the potential to be developed as public open space. In this context, the Council created the DLR Underline Activation project to test how this space could be better used for the benefit of all. The project delivered activity from Sept 21 to May 22 to trail new uses, raise the profile of the site and engage people in discussions about how the space could be improved on the long term.

This series of recordings captures how local people who who have lived and worked on the Isle of Dogs across four generations understand the unique history of the island, how things have changed and what the future might hold.

Commissioned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as part of the ‘DLR Underline Activation’ project, the audio was recorded on site from Sept 21-May 22, aiming to celebrate the area’s heritage and to collectively reimagine the future of the Underline as a public active space.

Thank you to everyone who contributed their words and insights with special thanks to Cubitt Library and the Friends of Island History Trust.

Audio production by Lucia Scazzocchio
Recording Assistant Dhevia Sharma

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RACIAL EQUITY &amp; THE CITY EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE OF COLOUR IN LONDON COMMISSIONED BY ARUP / DECOSM MAY - SEP 21 Racial Equity &amp; the City - Experiences of people of colour in London’ A series recorded as part of a research project

RACIAL EQUITY & THE CITY
EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE OF COLOUR IN LONDON
COMMISSIONED BY ARUP / DECOSM MAY - SEP 21

Racial Equity & the City - Experiences of people of colour in London’
A series recorded as part of a research project, exploring the relationship between the built environment and racial equity, through the eyes of community members in Newham and Thamesmead.

Recorded as a live radio discussion, these conversations bring to light some of the lived experiences of communities of colour in London, with the aim to encourage dialogue and action towards anti-racist city-making. Thank you to Smart Women’s Group, Newham, the DOST Centre for Young Refugees and Migrants in Newham and the individuals from Thamesmead who trusted us with their experiences and stories.

The project is funded by Arup with participatory research conducted by Arup in collaboration with Decosm, and Social Broadcasts. The findings and insights from this research will be shared in a report on arup.com in the November 2022

Broadcast on Resonance FM in October 2021

The first piece of research to be completed as part of a longer term project to examine how the built environment can help facilitate equity and inclusivity in the cities of tomorrow.

Working in collaboration with decosm, a London-based collective research group and think tank, and sound artists and facilitators Social Broadcasts, Arup (global engineering and consulting firm) researched and developed a toolkit for designers to show how new projects in cities can be developed with equitable design in mind.

Racial Equity & the City: Experiences of people of colour in London aims to encourage anti-racist city-making and sets out five ‘layers of the city’: narratives, agency & power, interactions, spaces and systems. Each layer is an opportunity to intervene to reshape inclusive and equitable urban experiences and practices of city-making.

A collaboration between Arup, Decosm and Social Broadcasts
Audio Production: Lucia Scazzocchio
Assistance from Dhevia Sharma
Photos by Daniel Imade

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WILD EYE - AUDIO POSTCARDS FROM THE NORTH YORKSHIRE COAST COMMISSIONED BY INVISIBLE DUST: JAN 21-APR 22 A series of audio postcards produced as part of Invisible Dust’s programme Wild Eye . This programme brings together world-leading

WILD EYE - AUDIO POSTCARDS FROM THE NORTH YORKSHIRE COAST
COMMISSIONED BY INVISIBLE DUST: JAN 21-APR 22

A series of audio postcards produced as part of Invisible Dust’s programme Wild Eye. This programme brings together world-leading artists and conservation scientists to create a series of unique sculptures which act as a waymarker or space for nature observation within the coastal landscape from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire. The artworks and associated interpretation will encourage more local connection with and commitment to nature conservation and action on climate change, drawing cultural/ nature tourism to the areas. The first of these commissions is two sculptures at Scarborough Castle and Whitby Abbey by artist Ryan Gander, and this series of audio postcards explore themes around local heritage, coastal living and climate change through remote interviews with 30 locals people from Scarborough and Whitby.

Photo by Silvia Malnati

Photo by Silvia Malnati

Audio production by Lucia Scazzocchio
Sound design by Silvia Malnati
Field recording by Andrea Campisi and Silvia Malnati

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LOSS IN TRANSLATION - FUNERALS AND DEATH CARE Social Distance, Digital Congregation: British Ritual Innovation under COVID-19 Manchester Metropolitan University April 2021 This audio documentary is a pilot of the research project Socia

LOSS IN TRANSLATION - FUNERALS AND DEATH CARE
Social Distance, Digital Congregation:
British Ritual Innovation under COVID-19
Manchester Metropolitan University April 2021

This audio documentary is a pilot of the research project Social Distance, Digital Congregation: British Ritual Innovation under COVID-19, hosted at Manchester Metropolitan University and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Drawn from the research of Social Distance, Digital Congregation: British Ritual Innovation under COVID-19, Loss in Translation is a montage piece interweaving the voices of funeral and death care professionals across faiths and people who have lost loved ones during the pandemic from interviews recorded remotely during the UK’s tough winter lockdown restriction’s 2021. This is a sociological piecing reflecting on how important religious and non- religious rituals are and the potentially long-term trauma incurred when they are taken away. 

We discover the initiation of a ‘standing stone’, erected as a memorial for this time when death has been so present in many people's lives. 

British Ritual Innovation Under Covid-19 (BRIC-19) is a research project led by Manchester Metropolitan University in association with the University of Chester, examining how British religious communities have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions it has imposed. This audio series features some of the stories and voices uncovered by this research. 

Researched by Paulina Kolata and produced by Lucia Scazzocchio for Social Broadcasts and Sasha Edye-Lindner.

With Thanks to contributors: Toby Angel, Tim Ashton, Peter Gaskin, Louise Winter, Waheed Khan, Lisa Wilkinson, Rachel Meyer, Shoayb Bux, Miri Lawrence and Perry Meyer

This piece received an honourable mention in the Voice Archive category at the at the 2021 Phonurgia Nova Awards in Paris.

Audio transcript available here

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LILY’S LEGACY - VOICES &amp; VISIONS OF LIBERAL JUDAISM COMMISSIONED BY LIBERAL JUDAISM, MARCH 2020 What is Liberal Judaism? Who are the Liberal Jews? Who were the founders and pioneers? What was their vision? And how is this vision emb

LILY’S LEGACY - VOICES & VISIONS OF LIBERAL JUDAISM
COMMISSIONED BY LIBERAL JUDAISM, MARCH 2020

What is Liberal Judaism? Who are the Liberal Jews? Who were the founders and pioneers? What was their vision? And how is this vision embodied today? 
A multi-media exhibition “Voices and Visions of Liberal Judaism” features the voices, visions, memories and mementos of Liberal Judaism through the 20th and 21st century, and their thoughts for the future.

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The exhibition was created from stories and materials collected as part of the Lily’s Legacy Project, which showcases The Radical History and Heritage of Liberal Judaism in Britain. The project examines how Liberal Judaism embodies the vision of its founder – Lily Montagu, Claude Montefiore and Rabbi Dr Israel Mattuck – both today and throughout its history.

The project has collected over 100 audio and audio – visual oral histories and memorabilia from Liberal Jews across communities and from all walks of life – from those involved in setting up communities many decades ago to those who have only recently found a home for their Jewish story within Liberal Judaism.

We produced a 10 part podcast series as part of this exhibition compiled from oral histories and produced as part of a digital exhibition exploring how Liberal Judaism has evolved since it was
co-founded by British visionary Lily Montagu in 1902.

Produced by Miri Lawrence and Lucia Scazzocchio
Narrated by Harry Hurst, Sound editing and design by Lucia Scazzocchio, and special thanks to all the contributors who agreed to share their stories.

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SHAPE NEWHAM - CO-DESIGN THROUGH PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND RADIO MAKING COMMISSIONED BY AOC/NEWHAM COUNCIL MARCH 19 -MARCH 20 As part of an ambitious 3 year place-making project ‘Shape Newham’ initiated by Newham Council and led by archi

SHAPE NEWHAM - CO-DESIGN THROUGH PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND RADIO MAKING
COMMISSIONED BY AOC/NEWHAM COUNCIL MARCH 19 -MARCH 20

As part of an ambitious 3 year place-making project ‘Shape Newham’ initiated by Newham Council and led by architecture practice AOC to revitalise 8 areas of Newham through co-designed public realm and art initiatives, Social Broadcast’s role was to connect with, listen to and reflect residents, organisations and businesses in these areas to understand local needs and potential collaboration.  ' 

Social Broadcasts works alongside design teams who work in areas undergoing change, working at a human scale, developing projects in collaboration with local people to create opportunities for those often unrepresented to see themselves reflected in the spaces they inhabit.                                            

In order to do this, we employ a methodology that looks at the physical, social and cultural characteristics of a place. This involves a process of deep listening, looking and observing. Conversation is at the heart of our research process, using audio recording, production and broadcasting as a tool to understand what is there, who is there, and what are the possibilities. Listening is a critical part of the process of developing projects in partnership with others.

The outcome was a series of 40 one on one interviews celebrating voices from Maryland, Forest Gate, East Ham, Plaistow, Green Street, Beckton, Manor Park and Little Ilford accessible online via a ‘portrait wall’.

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Facilitation of a series of radio making workshops with adults and young people in different areas of the borough. Participants were trained in oral history style interviewing and given the tools and agency to conduct their own interviews to be included in a final community podcast.

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Public listening events.
Hearing other community members’ voicing their ideas, hopes, concerns and descriptions via these audio pieces became an important and valuable part of the Assembly process. There was also an emotional value, creating connection and empathy through the shared listening experience.  Shorter versions and exerts of the final community podcasts were broadcast at each assembly event throughout the engagement period of the project.

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Final podcasts and audio portraits all available via Shape Newham website

Producer: Lucia Scazzocchio
With additional audio recording by Mae-Li Evans and event facilitation by Melanie Berard.

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CHANGING TRACKS - TWO AUDIO PIECES COMMISSIONED BY LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM OCT 18 Commissioned by London Transport Museum to explore the life, community and sense of place around two areas soon to be drastically changed by the arrival

CHANGING TRACKS - TWO AUDIO PIECES
COMMISSIONED BY LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM
OCT 18

Commissioned by London Transport Museum to explore the life, community and sense of place around two areas soon to be drastically changed by the arrival of Crossrail or ‘The Elizabeth Line’. This is a moment in time captured through voices of people who live and work in Thamesmead and Abbey Wood in South East London around what will soon become a destination station: Abbey Wood and Maryland an area overshadowed by Stratford and Westfield in East London.

Producer: Lucia Scazzocchio
With special thanks to: Matt Jenner, Raevennan Husbandes and Deborah Fripong at RTM for their help and generosity.

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RESIDENT FREQUENCIES - RADIO LOCAL: PETERBOROUGH COMMISSIONED BY HUNT &amp; DARTON OCTOBER 2019

RESIDENT FREQUENCIES - RADIO LOCAL: PETERBOROUGH
COMMISSIONED BY HUNT & DARTON
OCTOBER 2019

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Commissioned for Hunt & Darton's hyperlocal live radio performance: 12h Radio Local broadcast in partnership with Millfield Festival and live on local community radio Salaam Radio alongside other artists Andy Field and Highrise each assigned a different aspect of Millfield to explore.

Love and Life on Lincoln Road

What happens when you stop and tune in to Lincoln road, turn down the noise of the traffic and listen, really listen to the voices of the people passing through, stopping by or settling in from every corner of the world. Who are they, where have they come from and how did they end up there? This is a series of stories about life, love, survival and making a new home. Leave all assumptions at the door, welcome to Lincoln road, Peterborough

Recorded and produced by: Lucia Scazzocchio

RESIDENT FREQUENCIES - RADIO LOCAL: WIRRAL
COMMISSIONED BY HUNT & DARTON
APRIL 2019

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Commissioned for Hunt & Darton's hyperlocal live radio performance: 12h Radio Local broadcast in partnership with Heart of Glass live on local community station Radio Wirral and BBC Radio Merseyside as part of Wirral Borough of Culture 2019 alongside other artists and performers Rosana Cade and Sian Baxter and Victoria Melody each assigned a different aspect of Liscard to explore.

The Cherry Tree Chronicles

A series of audio vignettes depicting a day in the life of The Cherry Tree Shopping Centre in Liscard, Wallasey. Each episode paints a portrait in sound, progressing through the arc of the day, focusing on one scene at a time through a series of encounters along the way.

Recorded and produced by: Lucia Scazzocchio

RESIDENT FREQUENCIES - RADIO LOCAL: STOKE ON TRENT
COMMISSIONED BY HUNT & DARTON
AUGUST 2018

A four part series giving voice to the people who live and work in the forgotten town of Fenton one of the six towns that make up Stoke-On-Trent.

Commissioned for Hunt & Darton's hyperlocal live radio performance: 24H Radio Local broadcast live on local community station 6 Towns Radio as part of the Stoke-On-Trent Big Feast Festival, alongside other artists and performers Shit Theatre and The Eggs Collective each assigned a different area of Stoke to explore.

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Our take was inspired by local oral historian and radio producer Arthur Wood who recorded local voices on BBC Radio Stoke throughout the 70’s and 80’s. This Resident Frequencies series takes a look at Fenton today, new industry after the closure of the ‘pots’, the artistic heritage and many conversations with the proud people of Fenton as they go about their daily lives.

Recorded and produced by: Lucia Scazzocchio

RESIDENT FREQUENCIES - 24 RADIO LOCAL: CAMBRIDGE
COMMISSIONED BY HUNT & DARTON
CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION/CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL
MAY 2017

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A two part series giving voice to the neighbourhood around Cambridge Junction - Cambridge Leisure and played as part of Hunt & Darton's hyperlocal live radio performance: 24H Radio Local broadcast live on local community station Cambridge 105. 
Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Junction wanted to better understand the community and neighbourhood in this newly regenerated area around the venue. 

 


Through a collection of stories, experiences, commentary and history told by the people who live and work there, in their words.
Lucia Scazzocchio was 1 of 3 sound artists (alongside Anna Brownsted and Richard DeDomenici) commissioned to live in site for a week and create one hour of audio in episodes.
The result was an investigative exploration of how to find the heart of a community where on the surface it doesn't exist, one conversation led to another, the result was'Resident Frequencies'.  

Each episode is interwoven with field recordings, taking the listener on an audio journey through the area, listening to residents and business owners along the way. Each episode explores two very distinct areas around Cambridge Leisure, although only 500 yards apart ‘The Marque Building’ and the intersection of Hills road and Cherry Hinton Road where it sits, are two very different worlds that rarely collide. 

Recorded and produced by: Lucia Scazzocchio

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KINGS CROSS CONNECTIONS COMMISSIONED BY THE BUILDING EXPLORATORY AND HISTORY PIN FOR KINGS CROSS STORY PALACE MAY 18 King’s Cross is undergoing dramatic changes. The tower blocks and corporate offices that are redefining the area make

KINGS CROSS CONNECTIONS
COMMISSIONED BY THE BUILDING EXPLORATORY AND HISTORY PIN FOR KINGS CROSS STORY PALACE
MAY 18

King’s Cross is undergoing dramatic changes. The tower blocks and corporate offices that are redefining the area make it seem a universe away from the slums and workhouses of a hundred years ago, or the squats and warehouse raves of twenty years ago. Using story gathering and story sharing tools, King Cross Story Palace explores what the area has meant to people historically, and what it means to them now.

King’s Cross Story Palace is a two year project initiated by The Building Exploratory and History Pin, funded by The Lottery Heritage Fund, telling some of the stories that have been important to the people that have lived, worked and played in the area over the last 100 years. The project showcases social history and personal memories from the mile radius around King’s Cross station on our online archive and in a series of exhibitions and walking tours. 

Lucia Scazzocchio was commissioned to create an audio portrait of a day at Kings Cross station, the station as a set and passengers waiting for a train as the protagonists.
Using the theme of serendipity, coincidence luck and connection to engage strangers in conversation, this piece reveals some intimate tales of travel, faith and fortune resulting in some unlikely meetings and happenstance throughout the day. It’s amazing what strangers will tell you when you ask the right questions! Listen to Kings Cross Connections

Project managers: Aimee Taylor, Polly Rogers and Michael Hall
Recording and audio production: Lucia Scazzocchio

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RAINBOW PILGRIMS COMMISSIONED BY ROUNDHOUSE/LIBERAL JUDAISM LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND NOV 17- FEB 18

RAINBOW PILGRIMS
COMMISSIONED BY ROUNDHOUSE/LIBERAL JUDAISM
LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND
NOV 17- FEB 18

Rainbow Pilgrims is a landmark project that discovers the ‘hidden history’ of LGBTQI migrants in the UK past and present. 
Rainbow Pilgrims explores the narratives around ‘rites and passages’. The project documents the interconnection between faith, sexuality, gender and ethnicity by using oral history, film and photography. Rainbow Pilgrims culminates in a touring exhibition with pop-up events, a symposium, cutting-edge learning tools and an archive collection. This collection is the first source of LGBT and migration in a faith context in Britain.

Young radio makers were invited to attend a workshop hosted by Roundhouse Radio and Lucia Scazzocchio, focused on recording and producing oral history audio documentaries. The aim was for each student to produce an ‘audio portrait’ – a monologue piece giving insight into an aspect of one person’s life in their own words. 
More about the workshop

Lucia Scazzocchio was then commissioned to create audio clips and soundscapes from over forty oral history interviews for the Rainbow Pilgrims pop-up mobile and online exhibition curated by Ella Hollowood around six distinct themes: Finding the words, Finding love, Finding a home, finding a community, finding faith and finding ourselves. 

Project Manager: Surat-Shaan R Knan
Exhibition Curation: Ella Hollowood
Audio Production: Lucia Scazzocchio

BEYOND THE BABBLE &nbsp;-&nbsp;WHO ARE WE?&nbsp; COMMISSIONED BY COUNTERPOINT ARTS THE TATE EXCHANGE MARCH 2017

BEYOND THE BABBLE  - WHO ARE WE? 
COMMISSIONED BY COUNTERPOINT ARTS
THE TATE EXCHANGE MARCH 2017

Who Are We? is a collaborative project with Counterpoint Arts, Loughborough University, The Open University and University of Warwick seeking to provoke questions around identity belonging, migration and citizenship through the Arts and Public participation at The Tate Exchange, Tate Modern Switch House, 14-19 March

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Beyond The Babble was an interactive and participatory audio focused installation, exploring questions of identity, belonging and the fragile nuance of power-shifts around the impact of the collective and individual voice within the babble of social noise. 
A conversation between Giota Alivzou (Open University) and Lucia Scazzocchio introduces the context and background for the installation. 

Participants were invited to record personal thoughts, stories and experiences around questions of individual and collective identity. Who are we? Who am I? Over the course of the exhibition each recording was integrated into a living and growing sound installation. When heard all together these voices were an unidentifiable babble, however by tuning into a specific channel, each individual voice could be properly integrated, cutting through the noise generating its own impact as part of a collective.
This piece also took these individual voices beyond the walls of The Tate Exchange to the wider virtual sphere via a collection of ‘audio postcards’ broadcasting ‘who we are’, at this moment in time.

Articles about Who Are We? and Beyond the Babble
Active interpretation: at the meeting place of research and creative practice by Nelli Stravropoulou
Who are we in a moving world? by  Giota Alevizou and Sara de Jong

Beyond the Babble webpage created to recreate the audio experience from the Tate installation.

Sound installation by Lucia Scazzocchio

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V&amp;A LANSBURY MICRO MUSEUM -NEW HORIZONS COMISSIONED BY V&amp;A EAST FEBRUARY 17&nbsp;

V&A LANSBURY MICRO MUSEUM -NEW HORIZONS
COMISSIONED BY V&A EAST
FEBRUARY 17 

Brief and objectives
Following the first installation of the V&A Lansbury Micro-Museum, Neighbourhood Number 9 series exploring The Lansbury Estate in Poplar, East London,  the second exhibition
New Horizons 1950s – 1980s takes this exploration further, investigating how dramatic changes in local industry, population and transport links shaped the neighbourhood in the decades after the Festival closed. The display reveals how the fortunes of the local community were influenced by a complex web of political and planning ideologies – reaching far beyond the boundaries of the estate itself.

In order to truly understand the dynamics and effect of these changes on the local community, it was important to talk to a cross-section of the the local population part and present in order to capture personal experiences and anecdotes. 
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Proposal and Outcome
The best way to capture these 'oral histories' was to transform the museum into a recording both, inviting members of the public with a direct relationship to the Lansbury estate and the local area. Conversations were conducted over two days as part of an 'event' organised by the museum. 

The next stage was to synthesise these conversations into a comprehensive audio-scaped piece to create a sound installation that can be heard alongside the archival photographs, drawings and original artefacts that make up the New Horizons 1950s -1980s exhibition. 
 


Hear the second sound installation at Lansbury Micro Museum from 25th February. Open Fridays-Saturdays, 10am-4pm, Unit 27, Chrisp Street Market, Poplar, London E14 6AQ

Interviews Lucia Scazzocchio
Project Manager: Samantha Manton
Audio Production: Lucia Scazzocchio

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BACKYARD: REFLECTIONS OF HOME AND BELONGING OFF THE WALL PLAYERS/ NOMAD /CULTIVATERS OCTOBER 16 BACKYARD — Reflections of Home &amp; Belonging ' is a story collecting project exploring the i

BACKYARD: REFLECTIONS OF HOME AND BELONGING
OFF THE WALL PLAYERS/ NOMAD /CULTIVATERS
OCTOBER 16

BACKYARD — Reflections of Home & Belonging' is a story collecting project exploring the importance of oral history within East London’s Afro-Caribbean community.

The archive takes the form of an audio portrait of a people, place and time — featuring a variety voices and perspectives from the heart of London’s East End through 12 audio portraits of a community across four generations and an hour long audio-scape radio piece especially commissioned for broadcast on ResonanceFM. 

Interviews and research: Danielle Celeste
Project Manager: Michael Smythe
Audio Production: Lucia Scazzocchio

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THE PHYTOLOGY HOUR COMMISSIONED BY NOMAD PROJECTS MAY 2016 An hour long audio-scape combining documentary, original readings, music and field recordings especially commissioned for broadcast

THE PHYTOLOGY HOUR
COMMISSIONED BY NOMAD PROJECTS
MAY 2016

An hour long audio-scape combining documentary, original readings, music and field recordings especially commissioned for broadcast on ResonanceFM. 

Behind the gates of a magical medicinal garden: Phytology in Bethnal Green, London there is a whole world waiting to be found. As part of the VOICED project commissioned by Nomad Projects, this hour long programme combines poetry, prose, music and interviews from within the garden walls.

Featuring  interviews and original sound artworks by Michael Smythe, Gabby Boraston, Lucy Cash, Lucy McLauchlan, Lucía Montero, David Nash, James Nixon, Duncan Robertson, Stick In The Wheel, Sam Wallman & Sarah Westcott.

Audio Production: Lucia Scazzocchio

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SOMETHING TO DECLARE INITIATED BY CULTIVATERS FUNDED BY GRANTS FOR THE ARTS APRIL 16 - DEC 16

SOMETHING TO DECLARE
INITIATED BY CULTIVATERS
FUNDED BY GRANTS FOR THE ARTS
APRIL 16 - DEC 16

Something to Declare aims to raise awareness, help us better understand and possibly enable us to relate more to the migration 'crisis' at the moment.  Just as the image a dead Turkish child washed up on beach suddenly humanised reporting and attitudes about refugees, personal stories recounted by people around us can help us to identify and relate. Those people over there become these people over here. Ourselves and the people we know. 

This is a collection of personal stories about moving from somewhere else to London with an emphasis on how personal stories can help us relate to and understand the wider picture with the idea that most of us do indeed have 'Something to Declare' along the line, whether it be our own, our parent's or indeed our grandparent's story. 

The first stage, recording of a collection of personal stories local Londoners is already underway and they have been embedded into an online world map. These arrival stories already recount incredible diversity not only in where people are from but also depict many reasons for movement and arrival across different generations. 

The second stage was be a live immersive event at The British Museum and Rich Mix during Refugee Week, where participants where ask to record their stories at an 'Arrivals Bureau'. All stories where added to an interactive map. Something to Declare was a radio series broadcast on ResonanceFM in December 2016. 

Audio Production: Lucia Scazzocchio, 
Video and Photography Kuba Nowak
Web and multimedia production: Lucia Scazzocchio

REMEMBERING '65 COMMISSIONED BY HACKNEY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT APRIL 2015

REMEMBERING '65
COMMISSIONED BY HACKNEY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
APRIL 2015

An oral histories project commissioned by Hackney Cultural Development Team, designed to capture the stories of those who can remember 1965, when Hackney merged and became the borough that it is today. Hackney residents tapped into personal memories and inter-generational conversations around local issues and change to explore and discuss the extensive changes in attitudes and behaviours in society as a whole over the past fifty years. 

Brief and objectives

To celebrate Hackney’s 50-year anniversary (Hackney, Stoke Newington and Shoreditch merged in 1965) the borough’s library services and the Council run older residents initiative; The Hackney Circle, aimed to place an emphasis on this historical date through a collection of oral histories and memories.  The targets were to foster multi-generational participation, create opportunities for residents over 55 to be active, develop new skills for participants, value older generation’s knowledge and memories and create dialogue between older and younger residents. 

Proposal and Outcome

A social event at The Hackney museum where local residents with memories of Hackney in 1965 were invited to meet each other, be introduced to all the project participants and begin conversations around their personal stories and experiences. This is where we met the potential participants for the intergenerational conversations planned at the museum.

An afternoon of audio training where members of The Hackney Circle where invited to learn how to interview and record oral histories with local residents.
Two reminiscence and listening sessions where organised at the local libraries for residents to share and record their memories, however these were poorly attended so both became a one-on-one interview to be used as oral history archives.

Intergenerational Conversations at The Hackney Museum
3 local residents were paired with someone with similar interests or background or age they were in 1965. Each participant was filmed and asked to describe their assumptions they had about their conversation partner(s) before being taken into a private room for a guided conversation. Once the conversation was over the participants were filmed again to gage their reactions and insights. 
The 3 films and 3 edited conversations were made available online and shown at the Hackney Museum as an addition to the @50 exhibition until it closed in August 2015.

 

 

Remembering ‘65 Listening Party - live radio discussion broadcast
A two hour radio round table discussion at The Eastern Curve Garden, broadcast live via an online streaming platform.  Participants were invited to share their memories and talk about the changes both locally and generally over the past 50 years.  The result was an informal lively discussion with some fascinating insights into social and local history. 

Curation, workshops, audio and multi-media production: Lucia Scazzocchio
Film production and photography: Kuba Nowak

PARALLEL RADIO OCT 13 - PRESENT DAY

PARALLEL RADIO
OCT 13 - PRESENT DAY

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An informal live radio discussion show encouraging local Hackney residents and members of Hackney Stream +55 group at Open School East created to engage in conversation around topics that matter most to them. This initiative is part of an on going programme designed to encourage older Hackney residents to stay active, socialise and learn new skills. 

 

Brief and objectives

 After an incredibly successful one-off live radio event in collaboration with The Decorators and The Hackney Circle at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden it was clear that a live stream radio format is wonderfully effective framework for initiating the types conversation and lively debate that isn’t necessarily available in a social environment or more formal setting.

Proposal and Outcomes

The shows were a combination of fluid discussion around a universal topic (Isolation, Missions, Home, Youth.. ) or participates were invited to have an in depth conversation/interview with a guest from the local community. The group were also invited to The V&A Friday Lates to participate in a live broadcast about their experience of the museum being created as the first people’s museum. For many this was their first visit.

The discussion show format with a host facilitating the conversation meant that participants were encouraged to talk, but also to actively listen to each other, creating an immersive and informative experience and forming the template for future social broadcasts.

Facilitated by: Lucia Scazzocchio, Rick Crust, Laurence Taylor and Joseph Bond