Slavic Soundwalking

Project description

The Slavic soundwalking (SSW) mobile application project has the fundamental goal of contributing to transnational literary circulation and fostering transcultural dialogue through literary creation between Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia, whose languages belong to the same group of South Slavic languages. The underlying motivation of the project is to build good neighbourly relations resulting from language, expression, and a unique way of communication in an innovative and creative way, accessible to a large audience (people with disabilities, students, elderly, etc.), through digitization and sound design. This project gives artists and cultural workers the opportunity to acquire new skills and present their works in a distinctive form that freely spreads across borders and offers absolute freedom to be accepted by anyone interested in cultural, artistic, and new technological values, as well as in building and deepening good neighbourly relations that go hand in hand.

To achieve the above objectives, a series of different activities will be organized. The activities, in which all project partners cooperate, include a special call for authors, dubbing of content with voice recordings in several languages (South Slavic, English and sign language to enable a barrier-free society) with the participation of several composers from all partner countries, which will be used in the mobile application that works with the help of geolocation and city mapping. The result of the SSW project is a mobile application that will contain 75 audio-formatted short stories in five languages activated in public and green areas of the capital cities of the partner countries.Promotion through discursive activities (public events, workshops, etc.) will take place in capital cities of all three partner countries. The SSW mobile app will remain viable, and the content will be stored in digital form (SSW online platform) to support the artists' work and allow for continued visibility after the end of the project. The project will have a long-term impact on building a sound archive of Slavic languages for future generations.

Objective

- Transnational creation and circulation

Priorities

- Digital