Re-calibrating site-specific practices to probe value, asset and projection.

Sound modifies our experience of time and includes emotional registers that embody social, cultural and personal meaning and experience. Remaining open to imprecise correlations and temporal dissonances of the aural in combination or interplay with the visual/spatial, the studio has explored aural textures, sonic boundaries, illuminations and listening horizons as ways of reading sites and establishing the scope and intent of architectural projects.

The infrastructural relict of the Forth & Clyde Canal, an ambitious late C18th century project entangled with global trade, financial flow and many scales of commercial building, is the organising armature for design testing, for sounding out. Taking soundings is a precursor to and generative part of action - for safe passage, for stabilising excavation and construction, for precise medical intervention: for shaping architectural imaginaries and projected futures that embrace planetary care, equity, interdependency, and mutuality.