Fidel Meraz

Fidel’s research focuses on philosophical approaches, mainly through phenomenology, to the relationship between spatiality, temporality and the architectural place, as well as on issues of collective memory, heritage, cultural identity and perceptions of wellbeing. He has published and presented a number of papers in journals and conferences at international level. He is peer reviewer and member of editorial committees for several journals and publications in the UK and abroad.

His recent practice has involved sound installations such as Space, Sound, Sensation which was a site-specific, interactive sound installation as a space in which sound varied in response to the audience's movements within it. The intention was that, as the audience moved, they discovered that their coordinated actions modify the music and words in ways that they found more or less pleasant. Once this was collectively discovered, the audience learned how to modify and control the sound. The installation provided a way to experience and experiment with interactions between individual and collective performances and understandings in order to alter behaviour through spatial intuition and the aesthetic response to music and words.

Researchers