Forum Acousticum 2025, Málaga

In a previous post, I shared slides and YouTube clips of our team’s three paper presentations. here, I will share some photos, impressions from a soundwalk, and thoughts.

The Euronoise Conference is very large, with ~1500 participants, ~1100 papers and an industry exhibition by companies all over the world working in acoustic engineering.

The Euronoise – Forum Acousticum website is here: https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/

let’s dive into it! With so many parallel sessions (around 10, all the time), i could only capture 5-10% of what was going on. Two excellent papers from the first session that I chose to attend:

Wunderli et al, “ATTRACTIVENESS OF URBAN GREEN SPACES”, https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/uploads/app/1967/formsuploads/fileblock41743695809.pdf
Haselhoff, linking near-urban green spaces with population health https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/uploads/app/1967/formsuploads/fileblock41743671868.pdf
Watts, “TRANQUILLITY ISLANDS”, paper on green/blue city spaces that may provide more or less restorativeness, a metric of interest, https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/uploads/app/1967/formsuploads/fileblock41743330572.pdf
Dekoninck, recommendations for how to operationalise citizen science, https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/uploads/app/1967/formsuploads/fileblock41744037028.pdf

Then followed by

Engel, who is the guest editor for our recent MDPI Sustainability article on Wong Tai Sin, presented a study compares two parks in Curitiba, Brazil over time, https://revolution.helice.app/uploads/app/1967/formsuploads/fileblock41749916386.pdf
Joen, has previously investigated the acoutics of Korean temples [gooscholar]
van Kempen, meta-review of health/soundscape studies, of methodological interest and for policy, https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/uploads/app/1967/formsuploads/fileblock41743694124.pdf
Clark, similar work on health & policy, https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/uploads/app/1967/formsuploads/fileblock41743779206.pdf

Mark Plumbley’s keynote on AI for acoustics was a highlight (i took photos of almost every slide, will share upon request)

I joined a soundwalk (Daumal method) in the historical centre of Málaga. Francesc Daumal was there himself to lead and animate. I teamed up with two postgrad students and we set out to listen and smell the environment… it was slightly chaotic and rather terrifying to be blindfolded and led across bumpy footpaths near roaring traffic, but also fun, and inspiring for work that we are planning to do with MMHK in phase two.