The SIG Sound-Driven Design community wants to advance sound-inclusive design knowledge and methodology on designing sound for complex systems and environments.
Our goal is to establish and spread a design culture on sound and listening. Sound-driven design represents a shift from ‘designing sound’, as an object to be designed, towards ‘designing for listening in complexity’. We consider listening as a design element that can offer granularity to the design process. Designing for listening in complexity foregrounds the human-centered qualities of the sound-driven design space, as well as the role of the senses in the experience of the form quality of the sound of products and systems. We feel the urgency to fill the gap with the real-world practice, which is consolidating and already tackling the wicked problems of creating or improving the listening experience of products, media, cinema, video games, appliances and environments at large.
Our design research focuses on three main areas of interest:
Applied sound-driven design, including sound- and evidence-based case studies and interventions with specific impact, e.g., from product sounds to soundscapes, in healthcare, mobility, sustainability, and the lived environment in general.
Sound-driven design for experience, - listeners-centric and -inclusive design studies that investigate how sound and action intertwine to shape dynamic relationships between humans and objects, e.g. from sound-driven experience to the effect of sound on listeners, such as emotions and alarm fatigue.
Fundamentals of sound-driven design, including inquiries on the fundamentals of design and audition, formgiving and cognition, research methodology, the role of sound-based representations in design communication and creativity, design methods and tools.
Sound-driven design acknowledges the inherent holistic, multidisciplinary and embodied character of design. We offer a platform and a home for research communities that want to incorporate sound and listening in their design activity and research.
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Contact information if people want to join or learn more about the SIG
Dr. Stefano Delle Monache, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering - s.dellemonache@tudelft.nl
Dr. Nicolas Misdariis, IRCAM STMS Lab, Sound Perception and Design group - Nicolas.Misdariis@ircam.fr
Dr. Elif Özcan, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering - e.ozcan@tudelft.nl
Conveners and extended organising group
(From left to right) Dr. Stefano Delle Monache, Dr. Nicolas Misdariis, Dr. Elif Özcan, Dr. Daniel Hug, Dr. Sara Lenzi, Dr. Sandra Pauletto, Prof. Dr. Davide Rocchesso, Dr. Simone Spagnol.