COMS 5218 sound, space, and the city
winter 2022
The Winter 2022 class of “Sound, Space, and the City” collaborated with a Design Anthropology graduate course led by Dr. Chiara Del Gaudio, and with Ottawa coffee-house Arlington 5, on a project titled “Urban Imaginaries”. The project involved a series of events both real and virtual, including an in-person soundwalk on March 13th led by Dr. Vincent Andrisani (see above photos). Throughout the semester, students produced a series of audio reflections and completed the course with an audio essay, all of which can be listened to below.
Paris Jefferson
Paris has won awards and accolades for leading roles in theatre, film, and television ranging from Marla in Y: The Last Man ("magnetic" Vulture New York, "phenomenal" TV Podcast Industries), Anna Karenina ("mesmeric" The Guardian), Athena in Xena Warrior Princess, and Constance in The Constant Wife ("a comic masterclass in timing" The Times). In 2018 she won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the British Independent Film Festival (BIFF) for her role in Sunset Contract.
Paris has a BA Politics, Philosophy and History from the University of London and is completing an MA in Media & Communication at Carleton University.
Darnell Dobson
Darnell is a 2nd year post-graduate student pursuing a MA in Communications at Carleton University. He is interested in understanding the societal impact of the underrepresentation of racialized minorities in Canadian media and how we can make media a more equitable landscape.
Claudia Gleason
Claudia is a recent Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies graduate and current Master of Arts student at Carleton University. Her work this semester has focused largely on sound, anxiety, and gender. More specifically, she sought to consider how her experience as a young woman living in Centretown is often fraught with sounds that are anxiety-inducing, which differs significantly from the solace she once found in the sounds of the city pre-Freedom Convoy.
Sarina McGillivray
Sarina (she/her) is currently completing her Masters in Communication at Carleton University, where she also completed her Honours Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies. Her studies in sound focused on memory, temporality, and place, concluding with the connection of music and memory loss. Her broader research interests include representations of ageing women in media, and anything to do with constructions of gender and sexuality in media.
Teague O’Meara
Teague is a Carleton Communications graduate student whose research interests focus on the diversity and inclusion initiatives of municipal organizations in Ottawa. Diverging from her usual research interests, her audio essays centre on the relationship between sound, place, childhood and subjectivity.
Kennedy Laborde Ryan
Kennedy worked in advertising for a couple of years before returning to school to do her Master's in Communication. Her research interests stem from a desire to understand the relationship between physiology and culture. In her spare time, Kennedy enjoys cooking, baking, going for walks, and going to estate sales.