The Sonic Architectures research programme investigates the auditory possibilities embedded within architecture and the built environment, including reverberations, echoes, decays, sonic histories, material and spatial conditions, and feedback loops. Sonic Architectures seeks to explore, develop, and critically engage with existing conversations in the architectural discipline regarding the use of sound as a form of research, analysis, and generative possibility. The programme is a collaboration between Mark Campbell, Mhamad Safa, and Ines Weizman at the Royal College of Art, and the sonic theorist and practitioner, Gascia Ouzounian, Oxford University, and sound artist Jan St. Werner, Folkwang University of the Arts. A series of keynote lectures and roundtable discussions are punctuated by the ‘Recording Architectures’ workshops, which involve activated recordings of selected architectures; mixing and auditory manipulation of these recordings to create sonic impressions; and close listening sessions, as a way of returning these sounds to the built environment, creating a kind of sustained feedback loop.

These events are open to all students and researchers at the RCA. Guests and candidates interested in the PhD Programme are warmly invited to join.

Lectures will take place in the Lecture Theatre 1, Darwin Building, Kensington Campus.

Workshops will take place in the PhD Project Room, Stevens Building, Kensington Campus.