We all have the intuition: there’s a correlation between our well-being and the noise environment to which we’re exposed. A few years ago, Cynthia Fleury drew our attention to the fact that our societies provide noise for the poor and silence for the well-off. But can we measure this impact? At the CEntre Pour la Recherche EconoMique et ses APplications (CEPREMAP), the Institut du Bien-Être has developed methods for measuring perceived well-being and its evolution. La Semaine du Son therefore contacted the observatory to see if an approach could be developed to measure the link between well-being and the sound environment. The first step was to assimilate the work already done on the subject. This work is being undertaken by the Observatoire du bien-être, and the results will be presented this afternoon.
The meeting will take place at the Institut de l’audition, a joint research unit between the Institut Pasteur and INSERM. 2:30 pm: Opening speeches
Aziz el Amraoui, Director of the “Progressive Sensory Deficits, Pathophysiology and Therapy” Unit
Christian Hugonnet, President of La Semaine du Son
Erik Orsenna, Academician and patron of the 22nd UNESCO Sound Week 2:45 pm: Christian Hugonnet on the challenges of sound
3:00 pm: Presentation of the results of the study “Environnement sonore et bien-être, une revue des études disponibles” by Mathieu Perona, Executive Director of the Observatoire du Bien-ëtre 3:40 pm: Round Table on the theme “How to advance our knowledge of the impact of the sound environment on well-being”
Christian Hugonnet, President of La Semaine du Son
Erik Orsenna , academician and patron of the 22nd UNESCO Sound Week
Boris Gourévitch, Director of Research in Neuroscience at the CNRS
Mathieu Perona, Executive Director of the Observatoire du Bien-ëtre 16:30: Visit to the Institut de l’audition, free upon reservation, only 20 places available). Information on 01 42 78 10 15 or info@lasemaineduson.org