Project DeStress (name your neighbourhood, town, city or country) is an exciting research and public engagement project exploring the connections between the sounds we hear in places (soundscapes), our ability to relax and recover (cognitive restoration) and the design of the built environment. The intention is for Designing and Engineering Soundscapes To enable Restorative Environments for Sustainable Societies.
The project will combine knowledge on the health and wellbeing outcomes from experiencing sound in quiet and calm places and how this varies depending on the design of the surrounding buildings and infrastructure.
We want to engage with public, planners, designers, acousticians, and decision makers to understand more about how the sounds around us (soundscapes) impacts on our cognitive and emotional experiences of outdoor public city places. Learning about the effect of the physical design of our buildings, roads, parks, and city spaces on what we hear and do in places, will help us plan and manage our city environments to be beneficial for people’s health and wellbeing and quality of life.
Changes in our built environment can encourage people to stay in a place or quickly walk through it, thus we are interested in preserving those special urban places that do provide some quiet, calm, and tranquillity in our vibrant, buzzing cities.
Project DeStress Singapore Starts Today
About you
For the next few questions, please show how much you agree with each of the statements:
The project will combine knowledge on the health and wellbeing outcomes from experiencing sound in quiet and calm places and how this varies depending on the design of the surrounding buildings and infrastructure.
We want to engage with public, planners, designers, acousticians, and decision makers to understand more about how the sounds around us (soundscapes) impacts on our cognitive and emotional experiences of outdoor public city places. Learning about the effect of the physical design of our buildings, roads, parks, and city spaces on what we hear and do in places, will help us plan and manage our city environments to be beneficial for people’s health and wellbeing and quality of life.
Changes in our built environment can encourage people to stay in a place or quickly walk through it, thus we are interested in preserving those special urban places that do provide some quiet, calm, and tranquillity in our vibrant, buzzing cities.
Project DeStress Singapore Starts Today
Identifying quiet
and calm urban
outdoor places
Do you live, work, or regularly visit either Singapore, Sentosa island or Pulau Ubin?
Want the opportunity to be entered into a draw for one of three $15 NTUC vouchers?
Have 10-15 minutes to spare? Then please participate in our online study.
Cities can be exciting and eventful, but they can also be noisy. Access to quiet and calm outdoor places is a necessary balance for cities. Now every world city needs to identify and preserve outdoor places that are quiet. The trouble is knowing which places people think are quiet or calm, or even tranquil, and are worth protecting.
With your help we would like to identify quiet, calm and tranquil places in three Singapore places to help develop guidelines for cities to plan and protect such important places.
Data information
Want the opportunity to be entered into a draw for one of three $15 NTUC vouchers?
Have 10-15 minutes to spare? Then please participate in our online study.
Cities can be exciting and eventful, but they can also be noisy. Access to quiet and calm outdoor places is a necessary balance for cities. Now every world city needs to identify and preserve outdoor places that are quiet. The trouble is knowing which places people think are quiet or calm, or even tranquil, and are worth protecting.
With your help we would like to identify quiet, calm and tranquil places in three Singapore places to help develop guidelines for cities to plan and protect such important places.
Data information
The research is being conducted by Dr Sarah Payne from Heriot-Watt University, UK.
All data collected is confidential and kept on a secure system. You can provide an email address if you would like to be entered into the voucher draw. Your data will be kept separate from your email address straight away. There will be one voucher winner per city. If you change your mind, you can stop completing the questionnaire at any point.
If you are under 16, please discuss this survey first with a parent before continuing, as written consent will be needed.
Your city
All data collected is confidential and kept on a secure system. You can provide an email address if you would like to be entered into the voucher draw. Your data will be kept separate from your email address straight away. There will be one voucher winner per city. If you change your mind, you can stop completing the questionnaire at any point.
If you are under 16, please discuss this survey first with a parent before continuing, as written consent will be needed.
Your city
Please choose one response for each question below.
Identifying urban outdoor areas in Pulau Ubin and Sentosa Cove.
Click on a grey box below to identify a quiet, calm, or tranquil place that you visit. The icon will appear on the map. Position the tip of the icon in your identified place by dragging the icon or moving the map. You may need to 'zoom in' on the map first.
You can identify MULTIPLE places of each type or of different types of quiet, calm or tranquil outdoor places.
You can identify MULTIPLE places of each type or of different types of quiet, calm or tranquil outdoor places.
Don't forget, you can identify multiple Quiet, Calm, or Tranquil places.
Quiet Places Described in Pulau Ubin and Sentosa Cove
Most visited Quiet Place in Brighton and Hove
Remember your MOST often visited Quiet Place you identified.
Click in a circle to show your level of agreement with each word for describing your MOST visited Quiet Place.
| Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly Agree | |
| Calm | |||||
| Safe | |||||
| Accessible | |||||
| Alone | |||||
| Tranquil | |||||
| Quiet | |||||
| Built up | |||||
| Crowded | |||||
| Natural |
Thinking about your time in your MOST visited Quiet Place, how much have you been bothered, disturbed, or annoyed by traffic noise
| Not at all | Slightly | Moderately | Very | Extremely | |
| Bothered, Disturbed, Annoyed by traffic noise |
Calm Places Described in Pulau Ubin and Sentosa Cove
About you
Despite where you may live, do you identify yourself more as urban or rural?
Rural
Urban
For the next few questions, please show how much you agree with each of the statements:
I am easily awakened by noise
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
I get used to most noises without much difficulty
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
I find it hard to relax in a place that is noisy
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
I am good at concentrating no matter what noise is going on around me
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
I get mad at people who make noise that keeps me from falling asleep or getting work done
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
I am sensitive to noise
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
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