Outputs (16)

Structural moves in Norlands (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved (2023)
Book

https://www.msdm.org.uk/wide-load
This book is a photographic archive and written essays of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of house moving in the region, through a single his... Read More about Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved.

Wide Load: A House Moved (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

This artist book is a photographic archive and text of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house moving (husflyttningar) in the region, through a single, historic hous... Read More about Wide Load: A House Moved.

Studio archaeology (2021)
Physical Artefact

Spatial imagination, free-hand and digital drawing, model making and diagramming, modelling techniques, theoretical position, are a particular focus, this year, to focus upon the human occupation of space, the loss of social space correlating with th... Read More about Studio archaeology.

Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the possibilities of using performative painting as a form of visual and spatial architectural research, where the act of painting is part of the research itself. The paintings are of specific sites and sights that are localise... Read More about Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse.

The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2021)
Journal Article

The shift in focus in UK higher education since Thatcherism from the production of knowledge for civic
betterment to the production and consumption of knowledge by the university for revenue generation
can be read through the social rearrangement o... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.

Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This essay builds on an on-going cinematic survey of the changing neoliberal landscape of UK university campuses, started in 2016
who have been filming the physical transformation that has been occurring in the lifecycle of many university campuses... Read More about Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities.

Cinematic collage as architectural design research (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that cinematic representation can, and must, be understood as a method of developing a form of critical architectural enquiry and thinking in the same manner as text - a textual analysis and a communication means for practice-base... Read More about Cinematic collage as architectural design research.

A Critical Cinematic Survey of The Death and Life of UK Universities (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will screen and discuss extracts from a film which the authors are currently producing entitled The Death and Life of UK Universities. The film is a cinematic database survey being compiled of the changing space of all British unive... Read More about A Critical Cinematic Survey of The Death and Life of UK Universities.

Reading architecture: Re-drawing the line between consumption and learning (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines a pedagogic approach to architecture that re-instates the primacy of drawing as a site for examining the compliance of architecture with commodity form. It analyses a critical pedagogy that has emerged under the increasing commodi... Read More about Reading architecture: Re-drawing the line between consumption and learning.