Tonia Carless' Outputs (30)

The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

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

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 Contribution

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

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.

Structural Moves in Norrland (2023)
Book Chapter

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

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.

WIDE LOAD A House Moved (The Move: Teg to Degernäs, 10 Km) EXHIBITION 'CASA COLECTIVA' (COLLECTIVE HOUSE) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

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

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.

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 Artist Book (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

"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

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.

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.

The Bristol Art Library (2017)
Journal Article

This is a visual essay that analyses the changing function of the public space of the library through the juxtaposition of image and text. It looks at The Bristol Art Library, a performance space and fully functioning library, housed in a wooden cabi... Read More about The Bristol Art Library.

'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 RIBA Enterprises. This essay discusses the role of non-normative architectural representational practices in architectural design-based research. From a reading of Michel Foucault's concept of discursive formations, it sets out an inter-discip... Read More about 'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse.

An architectural gleaning (2013)
Book Chapter

Carless takes on the notion of ‘gleaning’, the activity of searching through debris to find things that can be re-used and incorporated into anything new – in her case, primarily architectural renovations. …
She does this by basing her ideas on Agne... Read More about An architectural gleaning.

Producing space, the confrontation between abstract space and everyday life: I wunder if heaven got a ghetto (2013)
Journal Article

This paper is intended as a contribution to current debates about the changing conditions of urban space and uneven development. It will analyse the functions of the architectural professions in this process and how their productions prefigure the so... Read More about Producing space, the confrontation between abstract space and everyday life: I wunder if heaven got a ghetto.

Unsettling in Norrland
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Session 3: Wide load - The wholesale moving of buildings in Norrlands (panel 1)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 housemoving
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Unsettling in Norrland
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

Unsettling in Norrland
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research uses film, photography and projection to analyse the changing space of Northern Sweden (Norrland). This peripheral region is one of the most rapidly reconfiguring spaces in Europe, with on-going programmes of corporate and state investm... Read More about Unsettling in Norrland.

Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities
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.

Reclaiming public space. A critical architecture
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The theme of this paper is to consider the increasing commodification of space and the role of architecture and urban design within this schema. It will examine public space and consider where it resides and how this is shifting. It will look at the... Read More about Reclaiming public space. A critical architecture.

A Critical Cinematic Survey of The Death and Life of UK Universities
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
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.

Drawing register. A line of thinking
Digital Artefact

This outlines an on-going archival project of discursive drawing practice. It documents a process of developing spatial theory through practice and a form of spatial resistance as a collaborative, shared representation and a public discourse.

The... Read More about Drawing register. A line of thinking.

Drawing
Book Chapter

This is an encyclopaedia entry. It offers a contemporary review of the use and application of drawing as architectural research for vernacular and anthropological investigation and analysis.