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An architectural gleaning

Carless, Tonia

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Authors

Tonia Carless Tonia4.Carless@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Architecture



Contributors

Graham Cairns
Editor

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

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