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ECOLALIA

Ecolalia is an immersive sound and light site-specific installation that utilizes ecological geospatial data to echo the ecoregion of a developed site. This installation is modeled off of data gathered from an equivalent local ecosystem. A selection of plant species from the ecoregion are represented in light and sound, each plant’s growth and decay rate based upon horticultural data and overlapping. Stripping away the living material, the system is seen, heard, and felt as a forest of code, echoing what once was, what could be.

Creating this entry point through sound and light allows the viewer into the intricate, intertwined data flow that is the living world. There are moments of quiet, moments of cataclysmic overwhelm, and subtle moments throughout time. This stripped down system provides another way into our living world, provides a way for the viewer to process varying durations and timescales.

(2018-Present)

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PEAK DISCHARGE

Peak Discharge / Revelatory Landscape + EcoFeminist Noise

This is "Peak Discharge / Revelatory Landscape + EcoFeminist Noise" by DTor on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who lo

(2016-Present)

[aecologia]

Hidden geographies: design for neurodivergent ways of hearing and sensing

Danielle Toronyi

Cities & Health Volume 5, 2021 - Issue 1-2: Sound and the Healthy City

Pages 133-137 | Received 15 Nov 2018, Accepted 29 May 2019, Published online: 14 Jun 2019

Abstract

Autistic people may share a similar neurological dysfunction in regulating perception and integration of complex sounds. Acoustics are a dominant sensory component of the city and may significantly impact Autistic people’s experience of the urban environment. In this reflection, I propose a research project comprising (1) a qualitative evaluation of Autistic adults’ sensory and acoustic experience of urban space through an embodied ethnographic study, (2) a systematic review of existing literature, (3) a comparative analysis of the ethnography and the review, in order to develop (4) guidelines for inclusive design which accommodate the auditory and sensory needs of Autistic people.

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Danielle Toronyi is a landscape architect and multi-disciplinary artist who is focused on how we collectively experience, change, and learn from artificial, constructed, and/or living systems. Her work comprises unbuilding/anti-tecture pro-land urban landscape projects, environmental data-driven multimedia installations, body-focused performance, and painting and drawing.

Danielle holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University's College of Design. She earned her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2011 and a BFA in Painting & Drawing from The University of the Arts in 2006. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia.