As part of The 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, this workshop invites participants to imagine and sketch vibrational architectures— architectures that foreground energetic, sonic, and vibratory capacities. Whereas architecture is conventionally conceived in relation to stability, fixity, and permanence, vibrational architectures are dynamic, unstable, and open. They generate spatial forms and processes that resist containment, prediction, and control, offering fertile tools for reimagining how architecture might be conceived, experienced, and designed. The workshop follows Gascia Ouzounian and Jonathan Tyrrell’s joint lecture, ‘On Vibrational Architectures’ which introduces theoretical frameworks and case studies from architecture and sound art. Participants are asked to attend this lecture, which will take place immediately before the workshop. The workshop will be focused on design, with participants invited to sketch and share their own visions of vibrational architectures. Sketching may take shape in any form–architectural drawing, illustration, photography, sound recording, or another type of design response. Any medium and format will be welcome. Participants will be invited to create designs individually or in small groups. Selected designs may be considered for publication in the forthcoming volume Critical Handbook of Sonic Urbanism and featured on the website of the ERC-funded research project Sonorous Cities.

Recommended for:

Architects, urbanists, artists, and sound practitioners.

Requirements:

Drawing materials (paper, tracing paper, pencils) will be provided; participants are welcome to bring their own materials.

Participants must attend the preceding lecture ‘On Vibrational Architectures’ (Friday 7 November, 10:00 – 11:00, 1 Pool Street, Cinema) for full contextual grounding.

Where: Pool Street Cinema, UCL East

When: Friday, November 7, 2025 at 11:30 am.