-Auditory spatial awareness is more than detecting space, it includes the emotional and behavioural experience of space. “detecting reverberation is different from responding to it”

-Aural architecture can evoke different reactions depending on the physical design and the cultural context.

Auditory spatial awareness is and amalgam of four things:

-Spatial attributes

-Auditory Perception

-Personal History

-Cultural Values

Auditory spatial awareness manifests itself in:

-Influencing social behaviour – some spaces emphasise aural privacy & loneliness, while others reinforce social cohesion.

-Allow us to orient and navigate through space – hearing acoustic objects & surfaces supplements vision. (Replaces in cases of darkness/disability)

-Affects our aesthetic sense of space. A space that lacks acoustic features is as boring as baron, grey walls. Visual embellishments are interesting to the eye, the same is for aural embellishments, adding aural richness to the space.

-Enhances our experiences of music & voices. “Unified aural experience” “the space becomes an extension of musical or vocal art form performed within it”

SOCIAL – NAVIGATIONAL – AESTHETIC – MUSICAL SPATIALITY