BMus (Jazz Drums), Griffith University, Australia MEnv (Education for Sustainability), Griffith University, Australia GradCert (Landscape Design), Deakin University, Australia
PhD Thesis Title:
Mastering Rhythmic Syncopations for Well-Being: Extemporising the Beat of the Landscape to Flow Like Water
PhD Research Summary:
With personal experiences of sounds in the hospital environment as an inpatient (and temporarily incapacitated musician), this research was inspired by a need to enrich the experience in hospital gardens for therapeutic benefit. Thus, the project aims to identify, analyse and qualify the soundscape experience of landscape spaces. The resultant data will be workshopped in collaboration with a community of practice of landscape designers to explore methods of integrating identified sound stimuli as a form of materiality into the design process. In doing so, the project aims to address the gap in design methodology for developing experiences other than visual by proposing a malleable “sound layer” that can be utilised within a traditional design process. The resultant model is intended for musically and non-musically inclined designers alike, bringing extended meaning to “composition” of the landscape.