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BirdHub is an ongoing design research project and international collaboration between the BIRD Lab at Yıldız Technical University of Istanbul and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo. Connecting two university campuses through real-time bioacoustic monitoring and shared soundscape interaction, the project explores acoustic connections between Istanbul and Tokyo.
Live environmental audio is streamed in both directions between the two campuses, allowing visitors — and potentially birds themselves — to hear distant soundscapes in real time.
Through this website, you can:
The scene represents the Otağ-ı Hümayun Garden on Yıldız Technical University's Davutpaşa Campus, where the live monitoring system and interactive installation are being developed and tested.
Project Team
BirdHub brings together expertise in interaction design, acoustics, and environmental informatics through the collaboration of researchers, designers, and students from the BIRD (Bio-centric Interaction Research & Design) Lab at Yıldız Technical University and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo.
Building on ongoing dialogue with soundscape research at the Kobayashi Lab, this collaboration extends these explorations into a design context focused on environmental listening, campus bird biodiversity, and connections between distant places.
Contact
Website Credits
Visual concept and illustrations: İdil Şenel
Web design and development: Barış Öçal, Buğra Bal
Recording Credits
Bird vocalization samples featured in the Bird Journals include following recordings from the Xeno-canto community archive.
Yükleniyor...
BirdHub is an ongoing design research project and international collaboration between the BIRD Lab at Yıldız Technical University of Istanbul and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo. Connecting two university campuses through real-time bioacoustic monitoring and shared soundscape interaction, the project explores acoustic connections between Istanbul and Tokyo.
Live environmental audio is streamed in both directions between the two campuses, allowing visitors — and potentially birds themselves — to hear distant soundscapes in real time.
Through this website, you can:
The scene represents Sanshiro Pond on the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus, where live monitoring points stream environmental audio from different locations across the university landscape, including Sanshiro Pond and Fuji Forest, depending on technical availability.
Project Team
BirdHub brings together expertise in interaction design, acoustics, and environmental informatics through the collaboration of researchers, designers, and students from the BIRD (Bio-centric Interaction Research & Design) Lab at Yıldız Technical University and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo.
Building on ongoing dialogue with soundscape research at the Kobayashi Lab, this collaboration extends these explorations into a design context focused on environmental listening, campus bird biodiversity, and connections between distant places.
Contact
Website Credits
Visual concept and illustrations: İdil Şenel
Web design and development: Barış Öçal, Buğra Bal
Recording Credits
Bird vocalization samples featured in the Bird Journals include following recordings from the Xeno-canto community archive.