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People, Place, Planet: The Ethical City
Get PDFAs we continue to shape our places, we are faced with the huge challenge of balancing our personal needs, the collective needs of our communities and those of our increasingly fragile planet.
The Glasshouse WeDesign series aims to identify and explore the opportunities and synergies that exist when we strive to balance people, place and planet in placemaking.
How can we think differently about how we shape our places? How can we collaborate more through design and placemaking to value and respect people, place and planet equally?
The final year thesis work at the Mackintosh School of Architecture uses the year theme of ‘The Ethical City’, to engage the student in debates around the role of architects and architecture in addressing concerns facing the city, such as sustainability, inclusivity, social cohesion and community resources, and how the city facilitates and nurtures society.
Using the Co Design event as a vehicle to explore conversations out with the academic studio and as a methodology and tool of community engagement, we ask the question:
With the ongoing threat of pandemics, artificial intelligence, food + energy insecurity, the Climate Emergency and political upheaval across the globe (manifest in direct action, strikes and outright rebellion from ordinarily placid populations), we are asking the question, what does this mean for the current city and the future of cities? Ethical decision making, processes relating to people, place + planet, and the choices that we make can no longer be separated from architectural design
The Architectural Monument to Robert Burns in the new age of Identity Politics and Nationalism
Get PDFA Spatial Analysis of architectural monuments and buildings built to celebrate or host the work of poet Robert Burns. What relationship can there be between poetry and architecture, and what significance does this have in the age of nationalism and identity politics? It is one chapter in leading Burns expert, Professor G Carruthers handbook , described by OUP as 'a collection of essays written by leading researchers in the field covering Burns's extensive literary and cultural career'
Making Spaces | Cultures of Architecture: Towards A New Plurality
No full textI was invited by the National Gallery to share and discuss my wider practice in architecture, spanning design, activism, education, curation, exhibition-making, public programming and the creation of inter/national festivals.
In-conversation with Professor Fiona McLachlan of the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at the University of Edinburgh, we explored my work and experience touching upon my international education in architecture, working at Zaha Hadid Architects, cultural democracy with National Collective in the Scottish Independence Referendum, the founding of the Architecture Fringe, my work in education, photography work, and curation in representing Scotland at the 2023 Venice Biennale with colleagues from the Architecture Fringe, -ism magazine, and /other.
The talk took place in-person at the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at the National Galleries of Scotland, and live online via YouTube
SALTHOUSE (FILM) 2023
No full textSALTHOUSE takes place in two distinct but connected settings. The first is an abandoned Salthouse at Prestwick beach on the west coast of Scotland: semi-rural, post-industrial, intertwined with the natural world yet apart from it. The second is in the corridors of the McLellan Galleries in the nearby city of Glasgow – a place once culturally alive and physically salubrious, now abandoned, dilapidated, fungus growing from its walls. The two places are haunted by the film’s sole protagonist, a woman costumed in natural shells and drift wood, black lace, antique lampshades, and drawings printed on her skirt. This woman – or, perhaps, creature – haunts the spaces of the film, collecting sea water in a pot one segment, carrying that pot through the gallery corridors in the next .The defunct and decrepit interiors, the decayed confusion of nature and artifice, human and inhuman, reflect the failures of modernism but also the continuing nostalgic appeal that ‘lost future’ holds.
Salt house was shown as part of an exhibition in the Reid Corridor Gallery Space that took it's name from the title of the film. The exhibition showcased latest SALTHOUSE (2023). Alongside the new film photographs from a selection of my films made over the past 14 years were exhibited.
The closing event was held on the Tuesday 27th @ 5pm February in the Ried auditorium where Carl Lavery, Professor of the Theatre anPerformance, University of Glasgow was in conversation with the artist, this event included a screening SALTHOUSE (2023)
Envelope
No full text‘Envelope’ is a fictional character study commissioned for the solo exhibition, ‘Leaves Turn Inside You’ by Charlie Hodgson at David Dale Gallery (Glasgow). This highly compressed and elliptical prose describes imaginary and real power struggles enacted in the medium of conversation. Through ‘Envelope’ the political and personal stakes of talking in social and public space are overlaid with interior monologues.
‘Envelope’ was written in response to a painting by Hodgson with the same title but veers into autobiographical writing and fuses memories of a car crash with observations on painterly touch. Protracted conversational loops are set in motion against the backdrop of a shattered windscreen which melts.
This is an experimental character study which threads together moments of intense interiority, repressed anger and observations of exteriority. Together these strands create a stilted, asymmetrical conversation and an introduction to a painting of a shattered windscreen behind which lays a blank envelope
Drown your laptop: on office sirens, working from home, and aesthetics of refusal
Get PDFThis text theorises with the figure of the “office siren” which emerged from TikTok fashion trends in early 2024 and transformed into more nebulous formulations, like those of femme office workers conducting business from bodies of water. I explore how these short ambiguous videos relate not only to feminist performance art of the late 1970s and 1980s but also what they tell us about gender performativity online, corporate culture, and environmentalism
'Made You Look', Instant Whip – Fraser Taylor, Textiles and Papers 1977-87 Revisited
No full text'Made You Look', Instant Whip – Fraser Taylor, Textiles and Papers 1977-87, Helena Britt and Panel (eds.), 2024, Glasgow, pp 46-49
Catalogue essay focusing on Fraser Taylor’s practice of ‘drawing into textiles’, his studio activity and the processes of abstraction which he engages in.
This text was commissioned by Fraser Taylor, Helena Britt and Panel to be part of the publication to accompany the retrospective and archival exhibition, Instant Whip, at the Reid Gallery in April 2024.
Structured around a conversation and a studio visit in August 2023, the text explored the idea of looking within Taylor’s practice. It functioned as a portrait of the artist, in terms of considering how he used and continues to use abstracted motifs throughout his process; looking back to previous paintings, collages and textiles to develop new work
Justin Carter and Onya McCausland [Book Reading]
No full textThis was a reading which took place during the book launch for Practising Landscape Field Guides 1-3, which took place on Thursday 14 November 2024.
During the book launch a reading was given by Justin Carter and Onya McCausland from Field Guide 3, Landscapes of Energy and Extraction; Material Agency and Meaning. This comprised reading out the email correspondences which form the narrative, as well as speaking about the context of the original seminar series from which the book emanates.
In the seminar, Justin Carter and Onya McCausland were in conversation with geographer, Dr Danny McNally about their recent projects involving material extracted from the landscape. Dr Frances Robertson acted as a respondent for the session and an expansion of the content of each of their contributions is published as Field Guide No. 3 – Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Material Agency and Meaning.
Avoiding the traditional monologic approach to presenting work, Justin and Onya built a shared dialogue framed by a small selection of relevant images used as way-finders. In keeping with their respective practices, their conversation was open and fluid, allowing ideas to emerge through conversation and exchange. The publication, field guide 3, extends that approach, beyond the confines of the seminar, to explore various modes of engaging with materials as active agents within their art making processes
Nil Yalter: Circular Tension by Omar Kholeif
Get PDFIn this deeply personal account, Omar Kholeif takes readers on a journey through the life and work of Nil Yalter—a pioneering artist, whose creative practice has remained marginalised in the script of womanist art historical narratives.
Born in Cairo in 1938 and raised in Turkey, Yalter has lived in France since 1965. Over the course of six decades, the artist has created genre-expanding artistic projects across disciplines, innovating across both form and content regardless of the complex sociopolitical context that has surrounded her.
Kholeif fuses the genres of auto/biography to unfurl a social and historical context that examines concepts of ethnicity, the diaspora, and feminism. Gender and sexuality are unbuckled, presenting a distinct picture of the changing cultural climate both in France and globally during second half of the twentieth century
Cerebral Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) Learning: A Methodological Framework to Develop a Web-Based Interactive 3D Application for Indonesian Medical Education
No full textCerebral magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an economical and minimally invasive imaging method utilized to diagnose various neurological disorders. Nevertheless, MRA images are two-dimensional and require a solid grasp of cerebral vascular anatomy for interpretation. In modern medical education, technology-enhanced learning approaches, such as interactive applications and digital 3D models, have been embraced to improve learning outcomes. However, in Indonesia, conventional 2D illustrations in textbooks, lecture slides, and anatomical specimens remain prevalent in the learning process. Recognizing this disparity, the research presented here is dedicated to developing a web-based interactive 3D application for learning about cerebral MRA and exploring its potential as a supplementary learning tool for Indonesian medical students.
Building upon workshops with different stakeholders, patient MRA data were digitally reconstructed into 3D models depicting normal cerebral vascularization, which were subsequently refined and integrated into a game engine platform to produce eight interactive 3D anatomy models. These models were then combined with relevant medical information and made available on itch.io as a web-based application to ensure broad accessibility.
The application's evaluation was completed through an online survey aimed at Indonesian medical professionals. Responses from 23 participants indicated a high usability rating (average SUS score = 72), positive comments on its usefulness as a learning aid, and a significant learning motivation among the participants. While further enhancements are necessary, this research possesses the potential to serve as a valuable supplementary learning approach for integration into Indonesian medical education. Furthermore, it represents an initial step in fostering awareness toward the implementation of technology-enhanced education in the medical field in southeastern Asian countries