The Engine Room Sound Laboratory is an ongoing investigation into how sounds, noise, ambience and acoustics affect the well-being and mental health of a community; using arts and science to work in tandem to explore playful and significant research led-processes that will have a lasting affect on a community and communities in general.

We started with a simple postcard with the statement 'Questions on a postcard, please' that asked what science meant to people. The answers were profound, weird and funny.
This led us to our questioning of how sound might affect the well-being of a community and how we can come together to explore this notion.

This project was led by visual artists Lisa-Marie Gibbs & Philip Newcombe and members of The Engine Room and the residents of Dee Park Estate

This work was supported by UKRI, The British Science Association and along researchers from Reading University to think and develop the possibilities of sound within the broad arena of art and science.