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Ruth Bernatek is an architectural urban historian specializing in the relationship between sound, architecture, and the built environment. Her primary research interests include audiovisual architecture, sonic archives, twentieth-century experimental music and sound art, urban sound studies, performance histories, and critical spatial practices, particularly the relationship between law, space, and sound. Ruth joined Warwick University in January 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on a UKRI-funded project titled Captive Arts, which explores the role of arts, creativity, and expression within English prisons. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow on the ERC-funded project SONCITIES at Oxford University, and she completed her PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2022, supported by a LAHP studentship award. Her dissertation focused on the histories of audiovisual architecture in the 1950s, specifically the work of architect and composer Iannis Xenakis. Ruth employs a range of interdisciplinary, creative, practice-informed methods in her work, including walking, model-making, drawing, exhibition, and filmmaking. Recently, her work has investigated the socio-legal perspectives of sound in urban areas characterized by high degrees of difference, focusing on notions of acoustic welfare within the context of UK justice systems.
University of Warwick • Coventry
Working on a UKRI-funded project exploring the role of arts, creativity, and expression within English prisons.
Oxford University • Oxford
Worked on the ERC-funded project SONCITIES.
Includes General, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Biomedical, and Manufacturing Engineering. Most programs fall under English Band A.