Sol Perez-Martinez is an architect, researcher, and curator. Her last building with her firm was a public school in the South of Chile, which encouraged her doctoral research at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Institute of Education about the interaction between architecture, education, and politics.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
Sol Perez-Martinez traces how deschooling theory has been applied to urban learning initiatives in the UK that sought to widen participation in the built environment and encourage education for action.