Mr Jordan Lacey

Dr Jordan Lacey is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) fellow and senior lecturer across RMIT University’s School of Design and School of Art. As an artist-scholar he is interested in ways that artistic methodologies and embodied practices can be embedded in academic discourse, to open new possible pathways for knowledge production. His research fellowship focuses on urban soundscape design, public sound installation art and ambiance praxis, with a particular focus on the ways in which urban sound installations can contribute to the emergence of resilient and creative cities. He is author of Sonic Rupture: a practice-led approach to urban soundscape design (2016), which combines ecosophical and acoustic ecology practices as a means to diversify listening experiences and human—non-human relationships in urban centers. He has created numerous public sound art installations that integrate sound into site-specific conditions, to both heighten human perception of everyday environments and challenge those controlling signifiers expressed within everyday sonic refrains. A list of his installation works can be found at hiddensounds.com.au. Jordan is associate editor for the Journal of Sonic Studies and special guest editor for the Unlikely: Journal of Creative Arts special edition Translating Ambiance.

• Art & Design Research Fellow
• Editorial duties: Journal Sonic Studies; Unlikely Journal of Creative Arts.

• PhD in Architecture & Design (Urban Soundscapes)

• Bachelor of Applied Science 

• Graduate Diploma in Education 

• Bachelor of Arts 

• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

Jordan is a practicing sound artist and musician, with a history of sound performance in Melbourne and Sydney in a variety of genres. He has performed in a number of locations around Australia and is currently engaged in the creation of soundscape compositions and sonic philosophies in a variety of contexts.

In his ten years' secondary school teaching he has built experience in the TAFE system, private and public schooling, and remote area teaching in the Northern Territory.

He has presented research on separate occasions to Landscape Architects at the City of Melbourne, and to the RMIT Design Research institute’s Material Symposium. Jordan has had a number of publications, conferences, installations and grants and spent a number of years travelling through Asia, Europe and Australia.

In 2010, he completed an internship as a Research Assistant at SIAL Sound Studios, where he completed a scoping exercise in Acoustic Ecology (Sites-of-Respite research).

Jordan is a member of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and Australian Computer Music Association.