Sena Karahan

Extract from Sound Map Postcards // Flip-soundmap-book (below) featured in Recording Life In Sound (SARU 2019).

Sena Karahan is an architect and scholar who finished her MA at Istanbul Bilgi University Cultural Studies Master Program, her thesis looked at Social Reproduction of Space and Soundscapes. Sena trained as an architect at the Faculty of Architecture Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. Before engaging with academia she worked as an architect at the architecture studio SMA, Selin Maner Architects, and later in the field of sustainable design. She travelled in South America for fourteen months from Argentina to Colombia. Her interest in the relation of sound and space was the key figure of design projects on her architectural training, affecting her journey and understanding of cultural and experienced space.

Sound Diaries

In 2008 Felicity Ford and Paul Whitty set up a project with the aim of recording everyday life in sound – to resist the overwhelming tide of visual images of the everyday and to meet it with the abundant soundings of vending machines, luggage carousels, toasters, escalators, boilers, garden sheds, wheeled luggage. We followed the writer Georges Perec’s instruction to exhaust the subject, not to be satisfied with a cursory glance, not to be satisifed to have identified what you already know – what you have already heard – but to look again or in our case to listen, to keep listening, to listen long after it would probably have been more sensible to stop. That project was Sound Diaries.

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