Tactile Stillness: London's Silence Map

"A hidden landscape of quiet spaces"

Hearing London in a new light

Using information the government has collected on noise levels within London, a map has been plotted of the capital’s most silent spaces. The map is made up of a series of dots (similar to Braille) where the darkest areas indicate the quietest areas. This aims to reveal a hidden landscape of quiet spaces, and shows an alternate side of the city that would normally go unnoticed. It is often only when it is quiet that we can begin to hear the detail and, when we listen and look a little harder, what we perceive as silent can reveal itself to be just as complex and intricate.

Artist/designer Simon Elvins created a series of ten 755 x 300 mm blind embossed etchings of the map. Check out his website via the link below.