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Garage, 2023
No full textPublication of one work, part of the 'Broken Windows Project'
Social scientists Wilson and Kelling introduced the ‘Broken Windows Theory’, where visible signs of disorder create an urban environment that encourages further disorder. There is an implication that the urban landscape allows a communication of lack of authority and this, in turn, proliferates a disregard for social norms and law. A new social geography emerges leading to a continuous deterioration of culture and community, as disorder becomes more common.
'Garage' is part of an on-going series of works that scrutinize the nuanced relationship between causality and correlation and advocate a complex response to how the urban landscape ultimately can become a site of resistance of marginalised communities and how disorder reflects the complexities of class dynamics and social engineering. Disorder is reframed as a complex phenomenon, imbued with transformative potential and latent opportunities for societal renewal and magical opportunities. The images in the series speak of a set of conditions that exist now in what was a failed gentrified portion of the city of Athens, Greece. They weave interpersonal narratives and hint at biographies and conditions that are at once difficult and wonderful. An inherit aesthetisation of the photograph (is not every photograph a tableau of some sort?) confronts a reality that has a hard edge. The narratives that spring from the images are suggestive and attempt to speak towards a biography of self, and the site they are made as well as chronicle life’s of people that occupy it.
Urbanvoid is a new experimental magazine that is brought together by Still Human Editions that publishes 2 distinct and interconnected magazines (Urbanvoid and Graincore) and addresses a human condition as it is manifested and recorded through the means of photography
Unpath'd Waters: UNPATH Navigator Technical Development
Get PDFThis additional technical report is to be read in conjunction with the main Unpath’d Waters project report, specifically the sections relating to Work Package 4 on the development of the Unpath’d Waters Navigator VR system (hereafter referred to as the Navigator). This report gives further detail on the technical specifications for the development of the Unpath’d Waters Navigator and the development process itself arising from the co-design process discussed in detail in the Work Package 4 sections of the main report
Reinventare la Famiglia - Dagli “Uccellini e le API” alle Tecnologie di Riproduzione Assistita (Art)
No full textThis chapter explores how assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have transformed concepts of family, kinship, and human identity. From the birth of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, to contemporary practices such as surrogacy, donor conception, and posthumous procreation, ART has redefined biological and social parenthood. Families are increasingly constructed beyond traditional nuclear models, creating what the author calls biosocial families, where gestational, genetic, and social roles intersect. Alongside opportunities, ART raises profound ethical, cultural, and philosophical dilemmas, including the commodification of human life, marketisation of reproductive materials, and inequalities between the Global North and South. Drawing on thinkers such as Kant, Appadurai, and Marx, the chapter situates ART within broader debates on capitalism, consumerism, and design. Through practice-based research case studies, design is positioned as a means of inquiry and public engagement, provoking reflection on reproduction, technology, and the future of human relationships
Making Present the Invisible: Accounting for Synthesis and Integration in Final Design Thesis, Recognising the Complexity of our Practice
Get PDFThis paper considers apparent ambiguity between the ambition for our students to be able to synthesise and integrate withing their creative work, and the increasing pressure within professional accreditation to identify and measure core skills, knowledge and abilities through the testing of discrete and often disconnected element of competence.
The paper considers how the demands for high levels of synthesis and integration between the parameters of design, technology, theory and professional practice expected within the Masters Final Design Thesis can mask the range of fundamental considerations and design challenges engaged with and responded to, the complexity of the task chosen and the degree of difficulty overcome to realise this.
The paper also considers how we can ensure that students recognise their ability to integrate and synthesise at all levels within their work, and are conscious of and confident in this key criteria for operating successfully within the architectural profession, an ability distinct from the expectation on other graduates and other disciplines
Making your research compliant: the new REF 2029 Open Access policy
Get PDFThis presentation for GSA staff explains what the REF 2029 Open Access policy is, how it will affect you as a researcher and how to comply with the policy. The presentation also covers how to comply with the UKRI Open Access policy.
The presentation slides are available to download from this record
Resonant Networks: Feminist Improvisation across Sites, Identities and Technologies
No full textJessica Argo will share audio visual documentation and reflective insights from an article in press for Improfil Journal: Theory and Practice of Improvised Music, from the International Instititute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The article was written, pondered and collated across multiple geographies – from India to Scotland and England – and from diverse experiences of migration, travel and belonging. A piece, titled Unbound, inspired by the River Yamuna was created by Surbhi Mittal and performed by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO) and International Contemporary Ensemble at GlOfest XVI in November 2024, CCA Glasgow, and in Delhi with Synth Ensemble, February 2025. She will outline the processes of collaboration which informed Surbhi’s creation of Unbound. By sharing a detailed account of how this piece was created and performed, we offer practice-based insight into the intersecting fields of improvisation, gender studies and socio-technologies. Jessica drawa on feminist creative practices which have improvisation as a central process (e.g. Krekels, 2019) as well as gender and identity expression with and through technology (e.g. Russell, 2020). The potential of telematic collaboration as an emancipatory practice, particularly for marginalised groups, will be also discussed (e.g. Sappho, 2022). From Surbhi Mittal, Delhi; Jessica Argo, Glasgow; Una MacGlone, Glasgow; Maria Sappho, Huddersfield
Dr. Jessica Argo is Programme Leader for BDes Sound for Moving Image at Glasgow School of Art, a composer for improvising ensembles and an experimental filmmaker/sound artist, drawn to music for community world-building – improvisation to bridge international distance and sustain intergenerational learning; improvising for queer affirmation; deep listening, emotional expression, mood regulation and liberation from patriarchal, ableist and economic oppression. Argo uses embodied synthesis (Moog Theremini, contact microphones, voice) to conjure alien sound, extended from her physical body or other acoustic bodies (cello). She has conducted neuroscience research, films in white cube galleries, dance clubs and hybrid room-and-ZOOM orchestra theatre performance
Rekindling (for Crae)
No full textRekindling (for Crae)
Duration: 44min 28sec
Broadcast on Dundee Radio Club's inaugural Listening Festival and on Radiophrenia's festival 2025
Rekindling (for Crae) is a collage of listening and trawling for recollections of emotions within archival interviews and the emotional arc of activism. It is a meditation on hope after defeat. The piece travels through the waves, rips, currents, ebbs and flows of turning tides, and is carried by voices spanning lifetimes of commitment to building something better. Accompanying them the music is inspired by and composed from a recording of a young child’s first exploration of a piano.
The spoken excerpts are all from the Women in Communism interview series recorded by Neil Rafeek held at the National Library Scotland’s sound archive. (the voices you hear are Jessie Clark, Marion Henery, Jean Mackay, Frieda Park, Isa Porte, Jenny Richardson and Christine Sloan).Protest Sounds recordings by Bex, Bobby Jewell and Steven Myles
'Carol Rhodes: Seen and Unseen'
Get PDFThis editorial served to position submissions to a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Painting devoted to Carol Rhodes (1959-2018). This special issue published the proceedings of 'Carol Rhodes: Seen and Unseen', a day long symposium held at The Glasgow School of Art in April 2024, which sought to identify new positions through which Rhodes's practice might be approached. Key to the formulation of these new approaches was a consideration of the artist's involvement with activism and political organising in the 1980s and early 1990s, her avowed interest in science fiction, the infrastructural realities she depicted, and insights into her working method provided by an archive of working materials
IKEA: Magical Patterns [Exhibition Review]
Get PDFThis review focuses on IKEA: Magical Patterns, an exhibition at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, which traces the evolution of printed textiles within the IKEA brand from the 1960s onwards. Highlighting textiles as central to IKEA’s identity and innovation, the exhibition showcases bold, colourful designs that reflect shifts in Swedish design culture and the company’s transformation into a global home-furnishing brand. Through printed textiles, original design works, archival catalogues and film excerpts the exhibition reveals the creative processes behind mass-produced textiles and celebrates the contributions of textile designers, including 10-Gruppen and Zandra Rhodes. While the show omits technical production details, it affirms the cultural and aesthetic significance of textile design, offering a vibrant experience that highlights the power of pattern and colour in everyday life
Resonant Networks: Feminist Improvisation across Sites, Identities and Technologies
No full textThis article has been written, pondered and collated across multiple geographies – from India to Scotland and England – and from diverse experiences of migration, travel and belonging. A piece, titled Unbound, inspired by the River Yamuna was created by Surbhi Mittal and performed by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO) and International Contemporary Ensemble at GlOfest XVI in November 2024, CCA Glasgow, and in Delhi with Synth Ensemble, February 2025.
We will outline the processes of collaboration which informed Surbhi’s creation of Unbound. By sharing a detailed account of how this piece was created and performed, we offer practice-based insight into the intersecting fields of improvisation, gender studies and socio-technologies. We draw on feminist creative practices which have improvisation as a central process (e.g. Krekels, 2019) as well as gender and identity expression with and through technology (e.g. Russell, 2020). The potential of telematic collaboration as an emancipatory practice, particularly for marginalised groups, will be also discussed (e.g. Sappho, 2022)