Winners of the Place au Son 2024 competition

For students at schools and universities of architecture, urban planning, landscape, design, art, engineering & students enrolled in training courses in sound professions, acousticians, designers, musicians, composers, engineers, video artists, luthiers, etc.

Listening is a political act of resistance to the functionalism of urban operations that are insensitive to climate change, deaf to residents and unconcerned with landscape variations. While local authorities are now almost always equipped with noise observatories, we have to admit that developers are very poor at promoting the sound qualities of outdoor spaces. Listening is an act of sharing. Choosing a point of hearing means taking the time to stop and listen to the world around us. Place au Son is a competition open to students enrolled in higher education during their degree course and 3 years after graduation (in architecture, urban planning, landscape, geography, design, arts, music, theater, cinema, engineering, etc.).

“POINTS D’OUÏE ET MOBILIERS D’ÉCOUTE” :

This year’s edition of “Place au Son” invited students to enhance existing public squares, highlighting hearing points and creating listening furniture known as belsonères.
The aim was to create a dialogue with the sound identity of the place, the acoustics of the habitats and the inhabitants.

Find out more about the competition!
Competition website

1st Prize

Tours is not in a vacuum École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne :
Jules
BERTHON, Émile
CHEVREAU, Pauline
DELAIS, Etienne
FILOCHE, Octave
LE BRUN, Marilou
RICHOU, Lise
TOMASEVIC, Anouchka TRARIEUX

2nd Prize

Anamnesis Écoles Nationales d’Architecture de Strasbourg et de Clermont-Ferrand and École Centrale de Lyon :
Louis
BRUNO, Julie
DUFOUR, Robin FOREST

3rd Prize

Les Grands écouteurs Khouloud
BENZARTI, DNSEP BAD student at TALM Angers
Haïfa
MAHMOUD, graduate of the ASPU master’s program at ENSAS and INSA Strasbourg
Philippe
MION graduated in DNSEP with a major in sound design from TALM Le Mans
Chloé
TERRÉE, geodesign master’s student at DAE Eindhoven

4th Prize

Felucca Ain Shams University, Cairo – Faculty of Engineering, Environmental Architecture and Urban Planning :
Mariam
ABDELMAGEED, Mohamed
ABDELMAGEED, Mohamed
AKAREB, Arafa
EL SAYED, Mohamed
FATOUH, Fadwa
KHALED, Nada
MOHAMED, Basant MOHAMED