Perceptive Encounters - an *Exchange of Realities
Perceptive Encounters is my final year project, rooted in personal + political narratives of marginalization, silence, and identity. Perception, to me, is key to discovering how socio-differences can be understood to create harmony. Unapologetically theoretical, my project asks: What does it mean to design for people? – the people excluded from the neurotypical framework. It doesn’t lie in the resolution, but in the resolving, the methodology.
The strategy was to create an intervention that did not ask to be an inclusive monument, but rather quiet gestures that don’t assume, but ask, as if they’re invitations. Through underground v. onground strategies, landscape blending, strict-ramp only circulation, and my audiovisual manipulative agency, the agenda was to keep the intervention on Old Birley Park to its contextual harmony with Hulme, staying as a transect space with additional, undemanding programmes. A Recording studio, multipurpose craft studios, multipurpose movement studios, an art exhibition space, and a cafe – all categorized within interdisciplinary audiovisual expression spaces following anti-pragmatic + neurodiverse sensory themes and users.
I would hate for my theory of The Politics of Silence to be mistaken as a floating concept. The theory is the architecture - folded into the very logic of my space: mirrored surfaces, blurred/angled thresholds, windchimes hidden in trees, ramps that guide without declaring purpose, internal cross-visibility, passive cooling strategie. It is all within the ambiguity of design, in the refusal to explain. My project is simply an invitation, not a demand, for people to co-exist and not have to justify their existence.
Beyond architecture, I have passions and skills in music production, graphic design, photography, and fashion. I am very passionate about understanding user experience, specifically the translation and communication between and from audio to/with visual. Feel free to contact me if interested.
