Photograph by Inga Ivanova
Photograph by Inga Ivanova
Photograph by Chloé Binh-Cirlot
Photograph by Chloé Binh-Cirlot
Photograph by Inga Ivanova
Photograph by Chloé Binh-Cirlot
Photograph by Chloé Binh-Cirlot
Photograph by Inga Ivanova
Photograph by Inga Ivanova
Photograph by Inga Ivanova


            Transgaïa was conducted as part of the one-year in-depth design course "GAÏA: Nature, Man, Technology" at Berlin University of the Arts, supervised by Prof. Dr. Palz, Prof. Pfeiffer and Christian Schmidts.

This experimental, transdisciplinary and collaborative project set out to create a moment of subtle and profound listening, understood as a prerequisite of resonance. The act of listening - and ultimately of welcoming - opens the door to the incorporation of a human dimension to architecture, namely the experience of architecture as being-in-resonance or being-in-common, and envisioning its landscape. This essay has taken the form of instrumental architectures, or architectural instruments, that take their place among the spectrum of bells, playing and replaying or playing with what they can evoke. The sound sculptures were performed both by a computer-assisted machine configured with the help of Ehua Kassi and Tobias Schubert, and by Ōtone a.k.a. Pablo (Rana) Diserens. The contrasting surprise of these two performances lifted the sound of bells or vibrational layering from their usual connotations, prompting a need to reflect on the genre of sound healing.

            This reflection on care and its ethics, at the origin of this project with regard to the subject, unfolded during a public meeting which took place at Backsteinboot on the evening of Friday 10 July 2020.