Every sound has a social relation, but the development of new technological tools most often focusses on musical or sonic output. Software and hardware originally designed for music-making are constantly being adapted, hacked and reconfigured for other design contexts - such recontextualisations point to new ways of thinking about how sound design can impact on other disciplines. With backgrounds in art, design and music, and interests that cross over into social, political, medical, computing and physical sciences, the Social Sound Research group at the School of Communication, Royal College of Art, London, is rethinking the potential of sound as a key area for contemporary communication design. This presentation explores how sound can be used to articulate, enhance and modulate our societies, examining how sound practice can effect and shape contemporary human experience and social interaction. Drawing on examples ranging from identifying and protecting soundmarks, architectural practice, public announcements and public art, we demonstrate the need for more holistic approaches to sound in the public realm, informed by both social design, and sophisticated, engaging sonic results.

Makers, design et morphogénèse = Makers, Design, and Morphogenesis

© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2017. Le nouveau Forum Art Innovation réunit à Paris les protagonistes majeurs du sensible et de l'intelligible, du désir et de l'étonnement : l'artiste, l'ingénieur, le scientifique et l'entrepreneur qui infléchissent et transgressent durablement notre présent. Dans un monde bouleversé par la technique et ses usages, dans notre société de l'anticipation, ce Forum « expose » et partage les nouveaux objets et nouvelles fictions artistiques, le design de rupture, les logiques innovantes de conception et de production qui traversent l'atelier et le laboratoire. Le Forum est tout à la fois un rendez-vous de présentations de prototypes et de réalisations artistiques et une plate-forme de travail dans l'esprit des FabLabs.