EASA 2027 Bid
Gallus
Year: 2025
Presented at INCM Resonate - Zaļenieki, Latvia
Ryan Woods & Iris Maria Tudor
A thematic and contextual film developed as part of EASA Scotland’s bid to host the 47th European Architecture Students’ Assembly in 2027.
Shot on location across the Highlands & Islands.
Gallus
Year: 2025
Presented at INCM Resonate - Zaļenieki, Latvia
Ryan Woods & Iris Maria Tudor
A thematic and contextual film developed as part of EASA Scotland’s bid to host the 47th European Architecture Students’ Assembly in 2027.
Shot on location across the Highlands & Islands.
European Architecture Students’ Assembly
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Commoning the City
DipArch Thesis
Year: 2025
Kyoto Institute of Technology/
Glasgow School of Art
By distilling the typological framework of Kyoto’s Neighbourhood Community Townhouses, the thesis frames the act of commoning as a means to imbue new value into material waste - a product of Japan’s Scrap & Build culture.
Through a synthesis of spatial theory, material reuse strategies, and socio-political activism, the thesis ultimately argues for an architecture that resists the disposability of contemporary urbanism and instead fosters lasting social and environmental resilience.
DipArch Thesis
Year: 2025
Kyoto Institute of Technology/
Glasgow School of Art
By distilling the typological framework of Kyoto’s Neighbourhood Community Townhouses, the thesis frames the act of commoning as a means to imbue new value into material waste - a product of Japan’s Scrap & Build culture.
Through a synthesis of spatial theory, material reuse strategies, and socio-political activism, the thesis ultimately argues for an architecture that resists the disposability of contemporary urbanism and instead fosters lasting social and environmental resilience.
都市のコモニング
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MacMag
Transgression
Year: 2023 - 2024
Ryan Woods, Emma Macdonald, Ayopo Olatunji & Joseph Crawley
In this edition, we look to explore ways in which the arts and architecture are critical of practice, education, and politics by creating new ways of living and working through systematic change.
A decade on from the independence referendum, Scotland has evolved into a much more politically engaged country which continues to feel the effects of a post-Brexit hangover. Glasgow, in particular, upholds its proud reputation of being a hotspot for cultivating political activism and championing social justice for all.
Taking inspiration from the city we all share, we explore the questions…
When do you choose to be transgressive?
How do you choose which form of transgression is appropriate?
How do you sustain it?
Transgression addresses a multiplicity of contemporary notions about what architecture is, what it should be and what its future might be.
Transgression
Year: 2023 - 2024
Ryan Woods, Emma Macdonald, Ayopo Olatunji & Joseph Crawley
In this edition, we look to explore ways in which the arts and architecture are critical of practice, education, and politics by creating new ways of living and working through systematic change.
A decade on from the independence referendum, Scotland has evolved into a much more politically engaged country which continues to feel the effects of a post-Brexit hangover. Glasgow, in particular, upholds its proud reputation of being a hotspot for cultivating political activism and championing social justice for all.
Taking inspiration from the city we all share, we explore the questions…
When do you choose to be transgressive?
How do you choose which form of transgression is appropriate?
How do you sustain it?
Transgression addresses a multiplicity of contemporary notions about what architecture is, what it should be and what its future might be.
The 49th Edition of the Mackintosh School of Architecture’s Annual Publication
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The Neighbourhood Assembly of Pollokshields
Urban Building
Location: Darnley Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Year: 2024
Taking the citizens’ assembly model, a deliberative and participatory democratic mechanism, which aims to make the political process more transparent and equitable to the national electorate; The urban building aims to establish a common space to provide a new level of political agency for local residents.
Urban Building
Location: Darnley Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Year: 2024
Taking the citizens’ assembly model, a deliberative and participatory democratic mechanism, which aims to make the political process more transparent and equitable to the national electorate; The urban building aims to establish a common space to provide a new level of political agency for local residents.
Micro-Political Agency for Pollokshields
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The Commoning Manifesto
Urban Housing
Location: St Andrews Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Year: 2023
By harnessing the existing power of our communities, implementing a contemporary form of the ‘commons’ can serve as an active platform for supporting and aiding political and urban change from within the system.
Urban Housing
Location: St Andrews Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Year: 2023
By harnessing the existing power of our communities, implementing a contemporary form of the ‘commons’ can serve as an active platform for supporting and aiding political and urban change from within the system.
Micro-Political Agency for Pollokshields
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