An architectural gleaning

Carless, Tonia

Abstract

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 Agnes Varda’s film, The Gleaners and I, using it to question the nature of capitalism as a consumer-led economy, on the one hand, and to open up the possibility of seeing design as a work of activism, on the other.
This is primarily examined through the presentation of design proposals that use the intellectual framework of gleaning and Varda’s film as their guide lines…

• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Feb 28, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 1, 2023
• Pages: 157-175
• Book Title: Reinventing Architecture and Interiors: A Socio-Political View on Building Adaptation
• ISBN: 9781907471735
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10488705
• Publisher URL: https://www.libripublishing.co.uk/Products/ProdID=60