Above all that is below
Above all that is below presents theoretical and practical arguments based on a mixed exploration of the fauna inhabiting the sewers of Barcelona. It is established on the hypothesis that the visibility of these species - invisible animal city dwellers - can influence the growth of future urban environments. To address this, current underground tracking technologies have been analyzed to propose a non-invasive one, research has been conducted on the role of multi-species design in reinventing the common environment, and sound has been used as an instrument to suggest new ways of reshaping future cities. Using the Cocktail Party effect to categorize recorded sounds in a controlled environment (the sewers of Barcelona), where sound becomes a generative tool that places all species on the same level of analysis, the audio recordings have been triangulated to obtain the exact positions of the emitters, and sound cartographies have been developed that directly correlate the underground and the surface. From this design proposal, the aim is to identify the inhabitation dynamics to suggest new practices of multispecies urbanism.
