The SOUND ATLAS is a forum engaging the multiple meanings of ‘sound’ as geographical, auditory, and ethical signifier to develop post-Anthropocene methods of architectural design: [Puget] Sound-Design.

Critiquing the concept of the Anthropocene as anthropocentric, philosophers of science Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret suggest the concept of the Phonocene, of an era devoted to the ‘earthly’ or ‘phonic ones’ thereby embracing the bio-evolutionary process of symbiosis, of ‘living-with, to learn from its techniques of ‘making-with’ and ‘sounding-with,’ of the ‘sympoetic’ and the ‚symphonic,‘ to compose forms of multispecies worldmaking. The SOUND ATLAS translates this perspective into architecture by creating a design methodology called Phono-Scenic Design.

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“It matters what thoughts think thoughts; it matters what knowledges know knowledges; it matters what relations relate relations. […] It matters which worlds world worlds and which stories tell stories. […] It matters what sounds sound sounds.“

Donna Haraway

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“Placing our time “under the sign of ‘Phonocene’ […] means not forgetting that, if the earth groans and creaks, it also sings. It means not forgetting too that these songs are in the process of disappearing, but that they will disappear all the more rapidly if we do not pay attention to them. And with them will also disappear a multiplicity of different ways of inhabiting the earth, of the inventiveness of life, of arrangements, melodic scores, fragile appropriations, ways of being, things that matter.” 

Vinciane Despret

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