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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 (Unpublished)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 (Unpublished)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.

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.

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

Structural Moves in Norrland (2023)
Book Chapter
Carless, T., & Benedict Brown, J. (2023). Structural Moves in Norrland. In G. Coutts, & T. Jokola (Eds.), Relate North: Possible Futures. Viseu, Portugal: InSEA. https://doi.org/10.24981/2023-RNPF

Based in Umeå, Northern Sweden, this project looks at the phenomena of moving whole houses and other buildings. This practice occurs throughout Sweden, in the USA, New Zealand and other territories. Moving structures this way has occurred for over... Read More about Structural Moves in Norrland.

Structural moves in Norrland (2023)
Book Chapter
Carless, T., & Benedict Brown, J. (2023). Structural moves in Norrland. In G. Coutts, & T. Jokela (Eds.), Relate North: Possible Futures (132-151). (1). Portugal: InSEA Publications. https://doi.org/10.24981/2023-RNPF

Based in Umeå, Northern Sweden, this project looks at the phenomena of moving whole houses and other buildings. This practice occurs throughout Sweden, in the USA, New Zealand and other territories. Moving structures this way has occurred for over a... Read More about Structural moves in Norrland.

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.

WIDE LOAD A House Moved (The Move: Teg to Degernäs, 10 Km) EXHIBITION 'CASA COLECTIVA' (COLLECTIVE HOUSE) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Carless, T. (2023). WIDE LOAD A House Moved (The Move: Teg to Degernäs, 10 Km) EXHIBITION 'CASA COLECTIVA' (COLLECTIVE HOUSE). [Photography]. Exhibited at Lisbon and Algarve Portugal. 30 August 2023 - 25 November 2023. (Unpublished)

Photography exhibition, with the theme COLLECTIVE HOUSE, included in the programming of the Arroios Photography Festival (from August 30th to September 15th) and in the Algarve Photography Festival (from October 21st to November 25th) The image is... Read More about WIDE LOAD A House Moved (The Move: Teg to Degernäs, 10 Km) EXHIBITION 'CASA COLECTIVA' (COLLECTIVE HOUSE).

Wide Load A House Moved (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Carless, T. Wide Load A House Moved. [Book Paperback limited edition prints and posters]. Exhibited at Smedjan Studio Umeå University. 16 June 2023 - 18 June 2023. (Unpublished)

This is an exhibition of cut books, supported by large scale display posters of the archive of Wide Load. The book includes essays by Tonia Carless & Robin Serjeant, James Benedict Brown, Matthew Hynam. Design by Paula Roush. Limited edition publicat... Read More about Wide Load A House Moved.

Session 3: Wide load - The wholesale moving of buildings in Norrlands (panel 1) (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Carless, T. (2023, January). Session 3: Wide load - The wholesale moving of buildings in Norrlands (panel 1). Paper presented at Relate North 10 Possible Futures, Yukon School of Visual Arts Dawson City

The panel session will question how a visual, spatial research, might uncover the implications of technological and social change in Norrlands. It will consider how political narratives of the region might be embedded in the space and propose new rea... Read More about Session 3: Wide load - The wholesale moving of buildings in Norrlands (panel 1).

Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved (2023)
Book
Carless, T., Sarjeant, R., Benedict Brown, J., Hynam, M., & Roush, P. (2023). T. Carless (Ed.). Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved. London: msdm London

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
Carless, T., Serjeant, R., Brown, J., roush, P., & Hynam, M. Wide Load: A House Moved. [Artist book]. 27 January 2023 - 27 January 2023. (Unpublished)

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.

Wide load housemoving (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Carless, T., & Serjeant, R. (2022, October). Wide load housemoving. Paper presented at ATUT Making (A)Mends Restorative Strategies, Responses and Pedagogies in Architecture and the Built Environment, Tampere Finland

In a Land of geological uplift, thousands of years of cultures, and new waves of corporate and state investment in a space for settlement and the extraction of natural resources, this paper examines the social phenomenon of moving houses, and other b... Read More about Wide load housemoving.

Studio Archaeology Artist Book (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Carless, T., & Roush, P. (2022). Studio Archaeology Artist Book. [Installation artist book]. Exhibited at Isabel Bader Centre Queen’s University Kingston Canada. 15 August 2022 - 17 August 2022. (Unpublished)

"STUDIO/ ARCHAEOLOGY," one accordion and six pamphlets, documents the interior of msdm project space through a cross-section of representational approaches including photogrammetry, narrative/ documentary context and book art. The 3-d models of msdm... Read More about Studio Archaeology Artist Book.

Studio archaeology (2021)
Physical Artefact
Banou, S., Carless, T., Drozynski, C., Grogoriadou, E., Hynam, M., Littlefield, D., & Roush, P. Studio archaeology. [Paper, concertina and six pamphlets]. London

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
Carless, T. (2021). Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse. In I. Troiani, & S. Ewing (Eds.), Visual Research Methods in Architecture. Bristol: Intellect

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
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2021). The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume. Architecture_MPS, 19(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2021v19i1.002

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)
Conference Proceeding
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2020). Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities. In H. Griffin, & G. Cairns (Eds.), Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media (136-144)

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.