This paper considers experiences of speculative immersion as artists and children map the multilayered sonic ecology of Birrarung Marr, a traditional meeting place for Aboriginal language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We explore how speculative practices of immersion shaped the mapping of precolonial, contemporary, and future soundscapes of Birrarung Marr, and the ceremonial burial of these sonic cartographies for future listeners. Bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous concepts of immersion in mutually respectful and purposeful conversation, we work to re-theorise immersive experience as a process of ecological multiplicity and affective resonance, rather than one of phenomenological containment. By approaching immersion as both a concept and a sensation that ruptures the boundary between body and environment, we follow how immersion ‘drifts’ across porous thresholds of sensing, thinking, dreaming, making, and knowing in situated environmental education contexts. In doing so, the paper stresses the importance of speculative immersive experience in cultivating liveable urban futures under conditions of climate change, and responds to the need for new understandings of immersion that take more-than-human ecologies of experience into account.

本文考虑了艺术家和儿童在绘制 Birrarung Marr 的多层声音生态时的投机体验，Birrarung Marr 是东库林民族土著语言群体的传统聚会场所。我们探讨了沉浸式的投机实践如何塑造了 Birrarung Marr 的前殖民时期、当代和未来音景的映射，以及这些声音制图为未来听众的仪式埋葬。在相互尊重和有目的的对话中将土著和非土著的沉浸概念结合在一起，我们努力将沉浸式体验重新理论化为生态多样性和情感共鸣的过程，而不是现象学的遏制。通过将沉浸作为一种概念和一种打破身体与环境之间界限的感觉来接近，我们关注沉浸感如何在情境教育环境中跨越感知、思考、梦想、创造和认知的多孔阈值。在此过程中，该论文强调了投机性沉浸式体验在气候变化条件下培育宜居城市未来的重要性，并回应了对沉浸式体验的新理解的需求，将超越人类的体验生态考虑在内。