Clients/Collaborations:

Friis Arkitekter AS

Kongsberg Tomteselskap AS

Benton Scott Simmons Landscape Architects

University of South East Norway Institute of Aesthetics, Norway

The Watermill Centre, USA

Robert Wilson, Theatre Director

Richter Spielgeräte GmBH

Timberplay Ltd

Claudy Council, Northern Ireland, UK

Design Skole Kolding, Denmark

University of South East Norway Architectural Lighting Design, Norway

Art Beat Music, Scotland

Buddy Beat Organisation, Scotland

Barnivalen Festival, Norway

Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway

Devotek Science Centre, Norway

HRH The Prince Charles and Dumfries House (as lead designer for Timberplay Scotland Ltd), Scotland

Morphy Richards PLC (as lead designer for Timberplay Scotland Ltd), Ireland

Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative (SSCI), Scotland

Scottish Government

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Scotland

Anderson Bell Christie Architects, Scotland

Solas Festival, Scotland

Nevis Partnership Ltd, Scotland

The West Dumbarton Environment Trust, Scotland

Play England, England, UK

Richmond Upon Thames Borough Council, London, England.

Richmond Upon Thames Playbuilder, London

University of Gloucester, England

Play Ireland, Ireland.

Hackney Learning Trust, London, UK

Hackney Playbuilder, London, UK

Keppie Design (Architects), Scotland

Timberplay Ltd, England

West Dunbartonshire Environment Trust

City of Edinburgh Dept of Education, Scotland

Elder & Canon Architects, Scotland.

Grounds for Play, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, Scotland

Glasgow Youth Services Scotland

Police Scotland

Glasgow City Council, Scotland

University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Six Cities Design Festival

Creative Entrepreneurs Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Scottish Government Dept of Education

Future Learning and Teaching Scotland

Tannahill Centre, Paisley, Scotland

Ferguslie Park Housing Association, Paisley, Scotland

New Gorbals Housing Association, Glasgow, Scotland

The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture and Design, Scotland

SUST, Scotland

Learning and Teaching Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

University of Glasgow, Scotland

Scottish Able Pupils Network, Scotland

Cernach Community Housing Association, Glasgow, Scotland

RMJM Architects, Edinburgh, Scotland

Mast Architects, Glasgow, Scotland

Cloch Housing Association, Greenock, Scotland

Collective Architects, Glasgow, Scotland

Malcolm Fraser Architects

Highland Council, Inverness, Scotland

Utheo Ltd, Bellshill, Scotland

Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

Ohio State University Hopkins Gallery

Mark Dion, Artist.

Change Performing Arts, Milan, Italy

Still Motion Arts, Scotland

The Wexner Centre for the Arts, USA

RW Work Ltd, NYC, USA

Highland Council

(not including schools and kindergartens)

PhD Project

‘The Child, The Unpredictable Landscape and the Artist’

A Doctoral Research Project In Landscape and Sustainability.

Institute of Culture Studies, University of South East Norway

funded by The Doctoral Programme at The university of South East Norway

Background and Research Question

“What kind of unique risks and affordances might be offered by experimental, performative activities undertaken in expansive, unpredictable landscapes which create agency for transformation and revelation in cultural and environmental values?”

This is a curious, open minded and creative enquiry delving into a dialogue between places, landscapes and ‘architectures’. Researching the in-between in disciplines of education, visual and performing arts, architecture and cultural studies.  The aim of my research is to contribute to interdisciplinary work between art education, art critical practice, play theory, architecture and action for sustainability.

Methodology

My proposal, at this early stage, is that the research will be divided between a qualitative, multiple case study approach and a practice-led research approach through participatory action research as a performative ‘social sculptor’.  The purpose of this is to work both as a researcher perceiving from the outside, probably using normative textual observation and theoretical analysis of symbolic interaction and in parallel researching as a performative artist, who senses through doing and making, using an embodied practice-led, arts-based research, through phenomenology. Intentionally these two methodology strands will sit in parallel and form their own cyclical discourse of the 'unpredictable landscape', of 'in between' and of ways of understanding and of knowing.

Theory

Using open ended processes, grounded in curiosity, the research will encompass theoretical explorations of social and spatial justice, play, cultural sustainability, landscape and more than human. I plan to explore an interpretative approach using abductive (explanatory inference) strategies within a relativist ontology.

An introduction to The Learning and Teaching for Sustainability Research Group (LETS) at The University of South East Norway (USN) as part of the 2020 Festival of Research in Norway.

Created and curated by Artist-Researcher and PhD Candidate, Tassy E. Thompson, (Landscape and Sustainability) in collaboration with LETS Research Group members, as a digital and multi-sensory mapping of situated, interconnected and ecological learning and teaching.

With technical support from Make Digital. Funded by USN’s Forskningsdagene 2020 Dissemination Funds.