Abstract
There is a great difference between the aspect of sound environment measured physically and that recognized by each people.
Formerly, it was considered that physical and objective descriptions of environment were more excellent. However, the people's actions to their environments are determined by the environment images recognized by themselves. And the environments of next generation will be made by today's daily actions of people. So, it can be said that people's subjective recognition to the environment play an important role.
Now I study the meaning and the role of subjective descriptions of sound environment by using examples of “Making Sound Map” and “Contest of Stillness”.
