Dr. Ilayda Altuntas's research, teaching, and art practice center on listening, sensory pedagogies, and community-based art education. With over a decade of experience organizing and programming art school initiatives, she has worked with diverse learners to explore creativity through sound, identity, and place-based education. Dr. Altuntas developed the Sounding Art Practice as Research (SAPAR) methodology, which uses sound as a medium to present the socio-cultural experiences of places.