Common Threads is a live-streamed, evolving document of Glasgow’s multicultural identity. A city-wide sonic campaign working towards more integrated and empathetic cultural relationships, it places site-specific listening posts across Glasgow’s neighbourhoods, where soundscapes representing each local area’s culture play on a rotating schedule throughout the year. Common Threads was born from a belief that the immigrant experience should not be carried quietly or apologised for. It should be celebrated, shared, and woven into the fabric of the places we call home.

These soundscapes are built from field recordings, community contributions, and live sonic capture, and they constantly evolve with the communities they represent. Archiving within an institution builds over time into an ongoing sonic history of Glasgow’s cultural landscape. The campaign runs year-round, moving through stages of community engagement, feeding back into the next in an expanding spiral of impact. Outcomes include three original soundscapes, a campaign guide, a visual identity system, a public submission archive, a short film, and legacy artefacts that communicate the campaign’s future potential.

Common Threads questions who gets to be heard in public space, whose culture is considered part of a city’s identity, and what it truly means to belong. It seeks meaningful disruption through sound and genuine connection through shared experience.