Rachel Wilson

Sounding the Everyday Sublime

Sonic Reflections in an Ocular-Centric World

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Our senses offer unique ways in which we understand the world that have potential to instigate change through their varying modes of perception. Currently, the role of sound is often under-utilised within a visually orientated world. How then might we explore thinking through sound as a design tool to cultivate care towards socially and environmentally sustainable futures? *OR* How then might we explore sound practices and theories as design tools to cultivate care towards socially and environmentally sustainable futures?

Centred around care, this work first considers ways in which we obtain knowledge through the world of sound. This is then investigated further through critically reflecting on literature within design philosophy, sound studies and beyond, considering how the role of sound may be embedded within the way design interacts with the world.

Through these reflections on sound across time to the phenomenon of wonderment, this work is essentially an enquiry into relations and the ways we experience knowledge beyond that which is seen whereby design may begin to consider vibrations of care.