Dr Tonia Carless

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Role:

Senior Lecturer - Architecture

Department staff:

FET - Architecture and the Built Environment

Collaborations:

Umeå University Sweden. Nya Töre Husflyttningar AB
house_Flow research studio
HouseEurope! European Citizens initiative for sustainability campaign, working in ways that avoid demolition and propose alternate solutions for re-use of buildings, to make wider change in economy, society, culture, public policy and the environment.
Sonja Lindgren Architect Holdjen Studios Stockholm
RISE Research Institute Sweden. Government body representing sustainable practices with municipalities and housing developers

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Qualifications:PhD Dip Arch BA Hons SFHA
Position:Senior Lecturer - Architecture
Department:FET - Architecture and the Built Environment
Telephone:+441173285826
Email:Tonia4.Carless@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Tonia Carless is an academic researching spatial politics and everyday life, the production of public space.

Current research publications include those on The Wholesale Moving of buildings in Northern Sweden as the most immediate form of spatial restructuring, simultaneously an everyday practice but also extraordinary of the region. The research is focused on building moving as a method of directly addressing uneven development in terms of the allocation of resources of architecture and built fabric. It offers a wider theory of the practice as a sustainable strategy to counter current mass housing approaches. Her research project house_Flow has been selected from hundereds to be exhibited at The Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025

https://www.cafx.dk/biennial/program/ge

https://formdesigncenter.com/en/exhibition/slow-down

She researches through design, drawing and visual practice. She completed a practice based PhD, through written, drawn and spatial thesis on architectural drawing and its relationship with the changing conditions of urban space. She also has publications on architectural drawing, public space and visual research methods.

Area of expertise

Wholesale building and structural moving, mapping impact, practices and process (Manual of Moving) and documenting in collaboration with a structural mover, Nya Töre Husflyytningar in the North of Sweden, for wider, global, circular applications.

https://www.msdm.org.uk/project/house-flow

Uneven development, spatial politics and the production of social space

Design research through architectural practice (Practice based PhD)

Interdisciplinary spatial practice

Discursive drawing, painting and collage in architectural design

Transdiscipliary approaches to visual architectural research and design

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