Now · Researching sound & well-being in healing spaces
I'm Shakila — an interior architect and researcher studying the effect of sonic environments on patients' psychological well-being — and a national-level musician, composer and builder of web apps.
Move your cursor over the ward — every source adds to the soundscape a patient lives in.
Master's thesis in Interior Architecture (SMUCT) investigating how the acoustic environment of in-patient areas in Bangladesh relates to patients' stress and anxiety — with a case study at Bangladesh Medical University, Dhaka.
Turning the thesis findings into a peer-reviewed article for a health-environments design journal, while extending the dataset with more wards and equivalent-level (LAeq) measurements.
A planned study on whether calm, live acoustic guitar sessions reduce stress and headache and improve sleep — born from listeners telling me how they felt after hearing me play.
My doctoral interest sits where architecture, acoustics and health meet: how the sound of a healing space shapes the people inside it, and how design can change that.
How do the acoustic conditions of in-patient wards relate to patients' stress and anxiety?
Which spatial and material design decisions measurably improve a ward's soundscape?
Can calm, live music work as a restorative layer within healthcare and everyday spaces?
Sonic environments and patient well-being in in-patient wards
Findings from the hospital case study
More wards, LAeq measurement, larger sample
Live acoustic sessions, stress and sleep
Healing environments, acoustics and well-being
Open to PhD supervision and research collaboration in Germany and Europe — acoustics, healthcare architecture or environmental psychology.
Get in touchA designer who codes. These are tools I build for my own research, learning and daily life — some will open to everyone soon. Previews only; the details stay in the lab.
An English & IELTS practice studio — reading, writing, listening and speaking with instant feedback.
Academic language, grammar and reference checking for the way researchers actually write.
A graded flip-book reading room for building English, one story at a time.
A calm personal money manager that syncs across devices.
Fast, readable search through hadith collections in Bengali.
A music streaming prototype — where my two worlds, code and sound, meet.
Point a camera at a room and get a first read of its spatial conditions — before design begins.
My own independent AI portal — growing one feature at a time.
A professional musician and national-level performer — vocalist, acoustic guitarist and composer, with award-winning work and performances on television and the stage.
↔ Sweep across the strings
“People told me their headaches eased and they slept better after an unplugged evening. That's where music turned into a research question.”
Professional singer, from soft acoustic sets to the national stage.
Unplugged sessions in calm, intimate settings.
Writing and composing original music.
Performances on television channels and national-level events.
Psychology stories from অন্তর্মন (Antormon), unplugged music sessions and research talks — new videos land here.
Master's degree, SMUCT (2026). Healthcare interiors, heritage conservation and adaptive reuse, biophilic design.
Acoustic measurement, psychometric scales, academic writing in APA style.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript apps with cloud sync and AI integrations.
Brand identity, visual communication and campaign thinking.
Writing and voicing Bengali psychology stories for অন্তর্মন.
Cultural coordination, the SMUCT Cultural Forum and student guidance.
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I grew up between sketchbooks and songs. Architecture taught me to look at space; music taught me to listen to it. My research sits right between the two — asking what the rooms we heal in sound like, and how that sound feels.
I'm a professional musician and composer who has performed on television and national stages. Today I work full-time as a cultural coordinator, build apps in the evenings, and keep a guitar within reach. I speak Bengali and English, and I'm learning German.
শোনা, দেখা, তারপর বানানো।
Research collaboration, PhD supervision, an app idea, or an unplugged evening — write to me.
shakila.sk09@gmail.com