Touchpoints (2025)

Lend your ear to Touchpoints, an evolving sonic assemblage weaving together voices discussing the relationship between ecological stewardship and touch in England. Hear from architects campaigning for disability justice, community gardeners, historians connecting colonisation + countryside, scholars of the senses, grassroots activists at the toxic waters edge, geographers decolonising the discipline, community organisers opening up the outdoors, curators of English rural life, farmers and government advisors.

In this piece discussion becomes a material and chat becomes a palette to piece together a polyvocal discourse. In the process of cutting, pasting, assembling, stitching and merging voices together, shared urgencies surface and points of tension strike a chord. Accents, lilts and affectations reflect the richness of those who call England home and play a role in taking care of it whilst emphasis, tone and pacing speaks for itself.

Other than cut’n’pasting, the audio is otherwise raw and untouched and can be experienced as part of an (over the top!) installation for London Festival of Architecture 2025, presented on theatrical stages in Barnet