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A meta-model for understanding ‘green-red loop’ social-water interactions at a global scale (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Chun, K., & Mijic, A. (in press). A meta-model for understanding ‘green-red loop’ social-water interactions at a global scale. Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143064

Within the coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), social-water interactions exhibit the ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ patterns, where social development is dependent on the local and external environment for resource provision, respectively. Sustai... Read More about A meta-model for understanding ‘green-red loop’ social-water interactions at a global scale.

Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Marco, E., Sinnet, D., & Oliveira, S. (2024, May). Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment. Presented at Urban Studies Conference, Helsinki, Finland

COVID-19 brought unprecedented restrictive lockdown measures across the globe. This ‘enforced togetherness’ brought transformative changes in how homes were used and inhabited. The home was tested to its limits and the use of its spaces renegotiated,... Read More about Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment.

The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Carless, T. The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume. [Video]. Exhibited at Borough Road Gallery London UK. 8 May 2024 - 14 May 2024. (Unpublished)

The first Public screening of The Death and Life of UK Universities and the Cultural Spaces They Consume A video work by Tonia Carless and Igea Troiani which uses film collected over a 10 year period to document the changing space of UK Universities... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.

The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Carless, T., Troiani, I., & Roush, P. The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume. [Paper/Online]. Exhibited at London. 7 May 2024. (Unpublished)

Images from film and text of The Death and Life of UK Universities - a joint publication with Professor Igea Troiani London South Bank University. Included in the exhibition catalogue published by msdm publications. Video installation included in... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.

Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Davidson, C. (2024, May). Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions. Paper presented at TECHNICA 2 Convention, University of Manchester

The first year of architectural education marks a period of foundational exploration, where students encounter a multitude of firsts and advance quickly. It marks their first exposure to design briefs and concepts, diagramming techniques, and the app... Read More about Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions.

Studio in the Woods 2018 (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Taylor, P. Studio in the Woods 2018. 17 April 2024 - 17 April 2024. (Unpublished)

In the Summer of 2018, a group of of over 50 architects, designers and carpenters camped out in England's Wyre forest as part of Studio in the Woods. Over four days in the woods they ate together, participated in lectures and crits and conceived, des... Read More about Studio in the Woods 2018.

Student interactions and self-directed activities in School Libraries: The design potentiality vs operational actuality (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Fouad, Z., & Sailer, K. (in press). Student interactions and self-directed activities in School Libraries: The design potentiality vs operational actuality.

School libraries contribute to student learning through accommodating the student self-directed activities (e.g. reading, studying, revising, drawing, etc) and interactions, all taking place during break-times. This research explores the design of sc... Read More about Student interactions and self-directed activities in School Libraries: The design potentiality vs operational actuality.

AA public programme symposium making home with the students as part of : A cinematic survey of sites of hybrid work in neo liberal sites of architectural education (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2024, March). AA public programme symposium making home with the students as part of : A cinematic survey of sites of hybrid work in neo liberal sites of architectural education. Presented at Making Home With The Students, The Architectural Association Bedford Square London

Screening of the first cut of the experimental film 'The Death and Life of UK Universities as part of a Symposium on 'Making Home with the Students' and a presentation by Professor Igea Troiani ( London South Bank University) of 'A Cinematic Survey... Read More about AA public programme symposium making home with the students as part of : A cinematic survey of sites of hybrid work in neo liberal sites of architectural education.

Bamboo (2024)
Book Chapter
Archila, H., Trujillo, D., & Zea Escamilla, E. (2024). Bamboo. In Materials: An environmental primer (34-45). London: RIBA Publishing

The environmental impacts of construction are momentous. How can architects minimise these by making responsible material choices? Material choices have a global impact. The design and construction industry are responsible for 39% of all carbon emiss... Read More about Bamboo.

Structural moves in Norlands (2023)
Book Chapter
Carless, T. (2023). Structural moves in Norlands. In Possible Futures. (10). University of the Arctic’s Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design thematic network (ASAD), Yukon University, and University of Lapland: Insea Publications

This chapter is derived from an interdisciplinary panel group who were participants of an online symposium Relate North 10: Possible Futures hosted by Yukon University Canada January 27-28 2023. The participants included Magnus Mårtesson (MM), Hous... Read More about Structural moves in Norlands.

Unsettling in Norrland (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Carless, T. (2023). Unsettling in Norrland. In 8TH SOPHIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Book of Abstracts

Short abstract from conference proceedings of the 8th Sophia International Conference Landscapes of care, photography, film, Modern Architecture and Landscape Heritage

Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (2023)
Journal Article
Rincón, C. E., Montoya, J. A., & Archila, H. F. (2023). Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Sustainability, 15(24), Article 16893. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152416893

Whilst upcoming innovations on digital technology and renewable energy can have a significant impact on the reduction of operational carbon emissions in the construction industry, readily available fast-growing building materials like bamboo are alre... Read More about Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Solar street art for a participatory energy transition (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Nicoletti, E. (2023, December). Solar street art for a participatory energy transition. Paper presented at Local Cultures – Global Spaces: Communities, People and Place, Virtual: New York, Hong Kong, Melbourne

The need to reduce global carbon emissions drives the renewable energy transition which can deeply transform cities. Façade retrofit plays an important role in improving the energy performance of the existing building stock. In renovation projects, t... Read More about Solar street art for a participatory energy transition.

Let’s play together (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G., & Rasbash, Z. (2023, November). Let’s play together. Presented at Sustainability and health: the nexus of carbon-neutral architecture and well-being. The 56th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

Throughout 2022-23 Watershed (cultural cinema & creative technology centre) have been working with an architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their building for the Climate Emergency. Watershed leads within its communities with a proud... Read More about Let’s play together.

Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G. (2023, November). Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking. Paper presented at Architecture 101: Questioning the Fundamentals, Newcastle

Beyond our most basic needs, Maslow, posited belonging (alongside love) as our most significant psychological need. Belonging noun “the feeling of being comfortable and happy in a particular situation or with a particular group of people, and bein... Read More about Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking.

Digital commons and architecture's self-image (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2023, October). Digital commons and architecture's self-image. Presented at AHRA International Conference 2023: Situated Ecologies of Care, Portsmouth

The research frames an emerging visual culture of display and observation that relies on the staging of architecture and the city not ‘as’ but ‘for’ the image. This does not concern strictly the building as visual object (Jencks 2006; Brigden 2019),... Read More about Digital commons and architecture's self-image.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Chamberlain, I. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2023. [Works on paper]. Exhibited at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK. 29 September 2023 - 15 October 2023. (Unpublished)

Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize received 3,000 submissions from 1,450 candidates located across the world for its 2023 edition. A total of 124 works by 111 drawing practit... Read More about Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2023.

Unsettling in Norrland (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Carless, T. (2023, September). Unsettling in Norrland. Paper presented at Landscapes of Care: Photography, Film, Modern Architecture and Landscape Heritage, Porto University School of Architecture

This presentation is of research using film, photography and projection to develop analysis of the changing space and architectures of Northern Sweden (Norrlands). This peripheral region is one of the most rapidly reconfiguring spaces in Europe, with... Read More about Unsettling in Norrland.

The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S., & Hynam, M. (2023, September). The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence. Paper presented at Architecture of Alterity: Body, Media, Space, Cardiff, Wales

At the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year, the architectural design community in the United Kingdom, is cautiously anticipating the Architect’s Registration Board, to provide the new guidelines and regulations for the delivery of architectural ed... Read More about The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence.