Sounding City 2025 focuses on sound in and across local communities, in the city and the region: the sounds of generations, of crafts communities, of local associations and collabs, and of humans connecting with landscapes and the more-than-human actors. & Co (community, collaboration, co-creation) is also the core theme for Struer Tracks 2025, the international sound-art biannual since 2019, the opening of which overlaps with the Sounding City final exhibition.

Sounding City takes place from the 28th of July to the 15th of August 2025.

The summer school spans over three weeks. The first week is online while the last two weeks are on location in Struer, the City of Sound, in Western Jutland.

Students will be introduced to theories of soundscapes and placemaking and how to listen to and engage with human, multispecies and nature environments. Students will be able to examine and analyze sound productions and public spaces, and also to fieldwork and field recording methodologies, working additionally with on-site interview techniques as well as with design thinking, creative and maker processes.

Sounding City Summer School consists of an online introductory section (a series of sessions, discussion and workshops based on reading recommendations to be studied before the Summer school starts) and two weeks in August on-site in Struer, during which participants will meet and work with sound art labsters, museum curators, municipal stakeholders, audiences and residents on urban challenges for which they will conceptualise, test, prototype and present a sonic solution and/or intervention to raise awareness.

The stay in Struer will end with the opening of an exhibition as well as with a presentation session with local stakeholders.