The SOUND ATLAS is a forum engaging the multiple meanings of ‘sound’ as geographical, auditory, and ethic signifier to develop post-Anthropocene methods of architectural design.
Critiquing the concept of the Anthropocene as anthropocentric, historians and 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.