Ambitions and plans

Sensing Environments - Constructing Worlds is a transdisciplinary research group that, through artistic research projects, explores multisensory, multilayered, embodied experiences within spatial environments. The creative projects are designed to engage the senses, to (re)imagine and (re)explore embodied and tactile knowledge, within interior spaces and exterior places. Through individual and collaborative projects, members of the group explore the ‘feeling’ of environments, on and in the skin; the presence of the body within structures; the physical connections among materials and the socio/political hidden within these spaces.

The group has organized interdisciplinary collaborations among Architecture and Sound Art students since 2021. They will continue to create exchanges and interactions among students and faculty.

Activity

Main Meetings occur the first 2 weeks of classes, and then two weeks towards the end of September with an opening evening performance event. There are a few other meetings in the spring and early summer.

Participants

Aleksandra Raonic
August Schmidt
Mette Rasmussen
Eira Foss

1st Year MAAR Students
Sound Art Students (2nd year Bachelor in Music Technology)

Activities:

ALL(É)ROM (2022) + Felles/skap/ark (2023) + Felles/skap/skip
(2024) + Fellescene (2025): four recent iterations in a series of
fullscale constructions designed and built by first-year
architecture students at the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. The fullscale exercise has
taken place each year since 2001 and is the first assignment
that the students complete in the five-year MAAR-programme
(Master in Architecture).

Other example Projects:

Sense Boxes: an interactive installation that brings physicality back
from the touch-less world of disembodied electroacoustic music by
asking the question “If you could touch a sound, what would it feel
like?

Filtering | Resonating: is a series of works (composition for
performer-composer, studio track & installations) that explores the
conceptual and sonic possibilities of using objects as physical filters
and the mircospaces they contain.

Fragile Environments: harnessing creative interventions in sound
composition and music technologies to encourage imaginative
listening and increased agency in facing the climate emergency. This
project asks: how can we overcome a sense of powerlessness in the
face of the climate emergency, through deep listening, creative
practice, and technological sensitivity? This artistic research project
is supported by the Peder Sather Foundation, in collaboration with
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University
of California, Berkeley and the University of Sussex.