TITLE: House_Flow
AUTHORS: Tonia Carless, paula roush, Robin Serjeant, Sonja Lindgren, James Benedict Brown and Magnus Mårtensson.
COMMISSIONER: Form/Design Center in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) with support from the Danish Arts Foundation and Architects Sweden.
MEDIUM: Installation and participatory artwork
PROJECT: House_Flow is developing a materialist history of building moving to widen public awareness of the phenomena. Video zines splice split screen images of the tools, materials, substances and sounds of the work of Magnus Mårtensson Nya Töre Husflyttningar AB, in Strycksele, Nordmaling and Robertsfors. It shows the publication Wide Load [Bred Last] and is a collaboration between Tonia Carless, paula roush, Robin Serjeant, Sonja Lindgren, James Benedict Brown and Magnus Mårtensson.
EXHIBITION: Slow Down [+] is a two-part exhibition. The first part is presented in Copenhagen and the second at Form/Design Center in Malmö, with works exploring what happens when we slow down and open up to new ways of understanding, building, and living. 24 Sept 2025 – 23 Nov 2025
house_flow — installation in slow down [+]
form/design center, malmö
a gesture of passage: houses in motion, breathing landscapes, techniques that leave traces. in house_flow we follow the slow tempo of building relocation in northern sweden, a choreography of tools, surfaces, people, and circulating materials.
the split-screen video zines reveal the movements — metal, timber, winches, wheels, cables, dust — forming a sensory archive of the work of magnus mårtensson / nya töre husflyttningar ab. the installation extends the book wide load [bred last], inviting visitors to leaf through, watch, listen.
we conceived this work as a way to widen public awareness of the practice of moving houses: a material phenomenology of transport, where architecture meets manual care. here, slowing down is not stopping — it’s entering another velocity, where building, moving, and preserving belong to the same gesture.
house_flow — instalação em slow down [+] form/design center, malmö
um gesto de travessia: casas que se deslocam, paisagens que respiram, técnicas que deixam rasto. em house_flow seguimos o ritmo lento do transporte de edifícios no norte da suécia, uma coreografia de ferramentas, superfícies, pessoas e matérias em circulação.
as vídeo-zines em ecrã dividido revelam os movimentos — metal, madeira, guinchos, rodas, cabos, poeiras — criando um arquivo sensorial do trabalho de magnus mårtensson / nya töre husflyttningar ab. a instalação prolonga o livro wide load [bred last] e convida quem passa a folhear, ver, escutar.
pensámos este trabalho como um modo de ampliar a consciência da prática de mover casas: uma fenomenologia do transporte, onde arquitetura e cuidado manual se interligam. aqui, abrandar não é parar — é entrar noutra velocidade, onde construir, deslocar e preservar pertencem ao mesmo gesto.
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk