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Sounding: (2024)

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Sounding: is a collective of Central Saint Martins MArch alumni (Tobi Ajanaku, Renua Ikiebe, Chloë Sumption, Sarah Osei, Loulwa Alshalan and Nica Sabet), brought together to use sound as a powerful tool for education, reclamation, and occupation.  We use the term 'sound' expansively - not just as audio or music, but as a framework that includes panel discussions, workshops, and events engaging ‘sound’ as a social, cultural, and architectural practice.

With the support of both the MA and BA Architecture programmes at Central Saint Martins and the Lethaby Gallery, Sounding: has curated and facilitated conversations with designers, architects and artists in London and beyond. 

Collaborators: 
Antoinette Yetunde Oni
Akil Scafe-Smith
Nabil Al-Kinani
Heba Tabidi
Rayan Elnayal
Dr. Catalina Mejía Moreno
Margarida Waco
Jessica Rowley
Arman Nouri
Töpia
Kwaku Boachie
Pedro Resendez
Hannah Kemp-Welch
Brigitte Hart





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SABO Works is a South London-based architectural and cultural practice founded by Sarah Osei, grounded in lived experiences, multiculturalism and social justice.

Sarah Osei is trained in Architecture and Spatial Practice, working at the intersections of ethnography, policy and architectures through methodologies of the diaspora. Her work is site-specific, amplifying the lesser-heard dialogues of the capital as a means towards celebrating them.  
‘SABO, pronounced [saa-boh], is derived from the Hausa language and means “something new.”

In this context, SABO also functions as an acronym, representing a lineage of names that not only reflects the methodologies of this architectural practice, but also acknowledges a duality of heritages, multicultural identities, and ongoing dialogues deeply rooted in the London periphery - where I was born and raised - but often journeying from beyond’ - Sarah, Amma/Adutwumwaa/Adams, Basoah, Osei.