Hear Our Houston
is an online library of public generated audio walking tours
2011-2015
Hear Our Houston is a hub of public generated audio walking tours around our city. Mostly active from 2011-2015, it serves now as an archive, and the range of the collection holds up well.
All sorts of folks from all around town took a walk, recording their thoughts, observations, stories, memories, and knowledge along the way. Using new(ish) technology at the time, through the website and an app, they uploaded the tour to HearOurHouston.com where anyone can download it for free and retrace the tour maker’s steps, layering meaning into geography, and trying on another person’s perspective.
Hear Our Houston was used to document elders stories, help with community driven development, and as curriculum from elementary school to community college where students would make and swap tours “walking a mile in each others’ shoes.”
Most of all, it was a platform for artists and residents to share undertold aspects of their expertise on some of the most beautifully created and carefully attended to corners of this sprawling city.
Please visit the website to hear for yourself
