Thematic guided tour – Attuned Pathways: Listening Through Architecture

Step into a space that listens. In this guided architectural tour, visitors are invited to experience the museum not simply as a physical building, but as a living instrument attuned to sound, silence, and presence. Beginning in the contemplative garden and continuing through the museum’s three floors, each space reveals how Sufi principles of resonance, remembrance can be embedded in an architectural form and space. Through layered forms, subtle rhythms, and spaces of pause, the architecture echoes the exhibition’s invitation to move beyond surface perception and deepen awareness and connection. Each level becomes part of a sensory and reflective journey, guiding visitors from the visible to the invisible, from sound to stillness, and from the outer world to the sense of self and beyond the physical body. Through this immersive walk, participants are introduced to a new path toward embodied awareness, where every corner becomes a whisper, and every step an invitation to pause, listen deeply, and contemplate. In this exhibition, what you see, feel, and walk through are not separate experiences, but interwoven threads. Here, perception, emotion, and movement become a single act of attunement, guiding you inward toward presence, remembrance, and the silent music of being through architecture.

Led by architect and researcher Nooshin Esmaeili, the tour blends insights from environmental psychology, spirituality, and architectural phenomenology. Her approach centers on the sensorial and poetic qualities of space, exploring how environments shape our consciousness and offer moments of inward reflection. The building itself—once a 19th-century mansion—emerges as both historical anchor and contemporary vessel, where architecture becomes a medium of transmission and care.

© Lauren Edeline