Jordan Lacey

Dr Jordan Lacey is a senior lecturer in RMIT University’s Master of Design Innovation and Technology program. As a pedagogue he specialises in creative research, soundscape design and applied philosophy. He is a former Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow and VIce-Chancellor's Post-doctoral fellow. He is author of two monographs with a third to be published this year.

As an artist-scholar he is interested in ways that artistic research methods, embodied (applied) practices and philosophical investigation can be embedded into academic discourse. His research fellowships had a specific focus on urban soundscape design, public sound installation art and ambiance/atmosphere praxis, with an interdisciplinary approach that brough together sound designers, landscape architects and environmental planners.

He is author of Sonic Rupture: a practice-led approach to urban soundscape design (2016), which combines ecosophical and acoustic ecology practices, and Urban Roar: a psychophysical approach to the design of affective environments (2022), which combines Deleuzian and Jungian affective philosophers with ambiance and soundscape practices. Ritualizing Sound: towards a psychotherapeutical materialism is his newest book (2026; forthcoming). He has created numerous public sound art installations, outdoor and indoor. A list of his installation works can be found at jordan-lacey.com. Jordan is associate editor and head of book reviews for the Journal of Sonic Studies and has been a special guest editor for the Unlikely: Journal of Creative Arts special edition Translating Ambiance.

Industry experience:
Jordan has worked with companies including Transurban and Macquarie Bank and councils including Melbourne, Manningham and Casey to explore ways in which soundscape design and sound installation art might positively impact everyday life. This culminated in his recent Sonic Gathering Place, an installation in RMIT's Alumni Courtyard that is a world's first example of a biophilic soundscape design installation. He is a practicing sound artist and musician with a history of sound performances throughout Australia. He regularly works with industry partners as part of his MDIT studio teaching including, Manningham city council, Abbotsford Convent (with Pennie Jagiello) and the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology.