19.-21. Mai 2026 Sanaa
SONIC BUILDING brings together scholars from architecture, sound, music, and design to discuss and experience space as a sounding, vibrating, and audibly perceptible medium.
SONIC BUILDING vereint Dozierende aus Architektur, Klang, Musik und Design, um Raum als klingendes, vibrierendes und auditiv erfahrbares Medium zu diskutieren und erfahren.
19.–21. MAI 2026
SANAA-Building
Zollverein Essen
Gelsenkirchener Str. 209
45309 Essen
Germany
Guests:
Dr. Mark Campbell – Royal College of Art London
Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz – UdK Berlin
Prof. Alfredo Thiermann – EPFL Lausanne
Ines Weizman – Royal College of Art London
Nikola Bojić – Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb
Varoujan Chetirian – NOPA Festival Jerevan/ Stellar Listening Project
Victoria Keddie – University of Pennsylvania
Genoël von Lilienstern – HfMT Hamburg
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Performances:
Michael Akstaller – Folkwang UdK
Dynamische Akustische Forschung
SKIA (Spatiale Klangwiedergabe im Außenraum) – Folkwang UdK
Mike Sekine
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Hosts:
Prof. Jan St. Werner – Folkwang UdK
Patricia Reed – Folkwang UdK / Design Academy Eindhoven
Dr. Brett Mommersteeg – Humboldt Universität Berlin
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Tuesday, 19. May 2026
09:30 SANAA opens
10:00 Welcome – Jan St. Werner – Sound Practice Research / Folkwang UdK
10:15 Introduction of Participants
11:00 Collective Listening Session
12:30 Presentation: Stellar Listening
Varoujan Chetirian – Nopa Jerevan / Stellar Listening Project
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
Mensa
14:00 – 14:45
Lecture: Architecture, Sound, and the Production of Space
Prof. Dr. Alfredo Thiermann – EPFL Lausanne
14:45 – 15:30
Lecture: Sounding Out Darwin
Prof. Dr. Ines Weizman, Dr. Mark Campbell – Royal College of Art London
15:30 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:30
Lecture: Bastard Spaces / Human Interference
Victoria Keddie (Mistake, Gesture, Acosutics of Shared Spaces) – University of Pennsylvania
16:30 – 17:10
Lecture: Atmospheric Warfare and the Post-forensic Condition
Nikola Bojić – Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb
17:10 – 17:30 Break
17:30 – 18:15
Lecture: Microtonal Architecture (Introduction to the Untwelving Convention 2026) – Genoël von Lilienstern – HfMT Hamburg
18:45 / 19:00 Diner SANAA
19:45 Introduction of SKIA, a first Demo of Spatial Diffusion in Public Space / Spatiale Klangwiedergabe Im Aussenraum – Sound Practice Research / Folkwang UdK
21:00 Curfew
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Wednesday, 20. May 2026
09:30 SANAA opens
10:00 – 10:45 Lecture : Urban Reflectors – Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz – UdK Berlin
10:45 – 11:30
Lecture: Sound / Space Analogies- Dr. Brett Mommersteeg – Humboldt Universität Berlin
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:15 DAF Basics – Silja Beck / Theresa Hartmann – Dynamische Akustische Forschung
12:15 – 12:45 Lecture: Space and Planetary Perception- Patricia Reed – Folkwang UdK / Design Academy Eindhoven
12:45 – 13:15 Lecture: Vibrational Witnessing – Gil Monteverde – Design Academy Eindhoven
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break Mensa
14:00 – 15:00 Listening / Sound Making Experiment
15:00 – 17:00 Collective Synthesis & Discussion, Discourse Mapping
17:00 Excursion / Sound Walk
18:30 Diner
19:30 – 20:15 Evening Performance – Mike Sekine – Sound Practice Research / Folkwang UdK
20:15 – 20:45 Eveneing Performance – Silja Beck & Theresa Hartmann (DAF)
20:45 – 21:15 Eveneing Performance – Sound Practice Research Kollektiv
21:15 – 21:45 Eveneing Performance – Michael Akstaller – Sound Practice Research / Folkwang UdK
21:45 – 00:00 Night Session
00:00 – 09:00 Listening Session
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Thursday, 21. May 2026
09:30 SANAA opens
10:00 – 13:00 Site Walk Zollverein / Outside Sound Activations
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:30 Summary, Next Steps
17:00 Fairwell
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Poster Patricia Reed, Fotos Lennart Pimpl