Pınar Çevikayak Yelmi was one of the speakers in the conference of "Cultures in Sustainable Futures: Theories, Policies, Practices" which was held in Helsinki, Finland between 6-8 May 2015. Yelmi presented her research titled "Sustainability of urban sonic heritage as part of intangible culture: Sounds of Istanbul".

Every Saturday in April, we walked four different routes in order to understand various acoustic environments. In Soundwalk Workshops, we listened to the neighborhoods of Galata, Karaköy, Beyoğlu and Eminönü. We realized the richness of the urban soundscape which we haven't noticed before and we discussed the uniqueness and the significance of cultural sounds.

Each one of us hear various sounds all day long, but we generally tend to ignore most of them...

Thank you all for participating our online survey about "The Sounds of Istanbul" !