A team of University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture students, local artists-architects, and associate Dean Research and Associate Professor Lisa Landrum are contributing to the Venice Biennale  ? via the ?SunShip? exhibit at the Virtual Italian Pavilion.

The team created the Theatres of Archimagination, an ongoing event of Five acts ?toward a renewed praxis of architecture in the wake of a troubled world.?
The event kicks off with an immersive multimedia polyphony, layering sights, sounds, echoes and rhythms of a city in lockdown called Sonic Trails: Lockdown. The installation is designed by fourth-year undergraduate architecture student Max Sandred, Örjan Sandred, a Sweden-born composer and professor at the University of Manitoba?s Desautels Faculty of Music, with composer Hans Tutschku, Professor and Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition.    In Sonic Trails: Lockdown, visitors are immersed in various events of a lockdown city occurring regardless of their presence. Using multiple audio-visual samples of these urban phenomena, the installation creates a new inhabitable place using layered projections and four loudspeakers. 
Artificial intelligence algorithms determine the composition of this environment in a constant process of deconstruction and reconfiguration. Pitches and harmonies are dissected from environmental noises, familiar objects and places are reduced to abstract visuals and spaces, rhythms and motifs are broug...