Journée d’accélération #3 du secteur Design et architecture
11.09.2025
Paris, IRCAM
Symposium on Sound-Driven Design:
Sounding Objects for Societal Impact
This two-day symposium is dedicated to exploring how sound can inform and transform design practices for societal good.
Sound is a vital yet often overlooked dimension of our interactions with the world. It plays a key role in shaping human experiences, environmental awareness, and social cohesion. It influences human perception, urban and ecological systems, and cultural practices – yet it currently remains a gap in how sound is considered and integrated.
This symposium aims to bridge that gap through a multidisciplinary research dialogue, bringing together the sound and design research communities. We will investigate how systemic approaches to sound-driven design can help address the ways in which society influences and is influenced by sound.
This research-focused event will bring together experts in design and sound to explore how systemic approaches to sound-driven design can support societal transformation, through three main thematic sessions:
1. Design Process and Methodology
2. Human-Technology Entanglement
3. Societal Impact of Design
Each session will feature paired lectures and dialogues from design and sound experts, followed by facilitated thematic focus groups. Outcomes from these discussions will be considered for publication in the DRS Digital Library.
Who Should Attend?
This symposium is designed as an active research event where participants can actively engage in research discussions. We therefore expect participants to be at least advanced PhD students. We also welcome early-career or confirmed researchers and practitioners with a strong academic or practice based interest in design and sound engaged in interdisciplinary work.
Vendredi 11 septembre
D: Design expert | S: Sound expert
8:45-9:00
WELCOME
9:00-10:00
DESIGN PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY
JEAN-FRANCOIS BOUJUT (Institute of Engineering and Management of Grenoble INP – UGA)
[1D] Design intermediary / boundary objects
FLORIAN GROND (Concordia University)
[1S] Sonic Boundary Objects
Dialogue
10:00-11:00
Focus groups formation
& COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30
Parallel focus groups (max. 10 members)
& short reporting
12:30-14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:00
HUMAIN-TECHNOLOGY ENTANGLEMENT
MARIA LUCE LUPETTI (Politecnico of Torino)
[2D] Sonic Entanglements: Rethinking Human-Technology Relations Through Sound
FRÉDÉRIC BEVILACQUA (IRCAM, STMS Lab)
[2S] Perspectives in Designing Movement-Sound Interaction
Dialogue
15:00-16:00
Focus groups formation
& COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:30
Parallel focus groups (max. 10 members)
& short reporting
Vendredi 12 septembre
8:45-9:00
WELCOME
9:00-10:00
SOCIETAL IMPACT OF DESIGN
ÉMILE DE VISSCHER (CRD ENS Paris-Saclay, ENSCI Les Ateliers)
[3D] Ecologies of Making: A Question for Society
SALOMÉ VOEGELIN (London College of Communication, University of the Arts)
[3S] Sonic possibility and habitability
Dialogue
10:00-11:00
Focus groups formation
& COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30
Parallel focus groups (max. 10 members)
& short reporting
12:30-14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:00
Preparation of focus groups presentations
15:00-15:30
COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:00
Presentation of results of focus groups (30 min / group)
17:00-17:30
Synthesis & Perspectives
17:30-19:00
Closing aperitif
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Organised by:
- Sound Perception and Design Group, IRCAM STMS Lab (S. Delle Monache, N. Misdariis)
- Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology (E. Özcan)
- DRS Special Interest Group on Sound-Driven Design (Design Research Society) (S. Delle Monache, D. Hug, S. Lenzi, N. Misdariis, E. Özcan, S. Pauletto, D. Rocchesso, S. Spagnol)
With support from:
- Centre de Recherche en Design (ENS Paris-Saclay / ENSCI – Les Ateliers)
- Programme de recherche Industries Culturelles et Créatives (PEPR ICCARE), sector Design and Architecture
