WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved
TITLE: WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved
AUTHORS: Tonia Carless Robin Serjeant paula roush
James Benedict Brown Matthew Hynam
FORMAT: Monograph
PAGES: 268
DIMENSIONS: 29.7x 21 x 2 cm
PAPER: Uncoated matt
BINDING: Perfect binding
PROCESS: Indigo
COLOUR: Colour and black and white
PUBLISHER:
msdm publications
SUPPORTED BY:
Umeå University Sweden
UmArts A Small Visionary Project Award
PUBLICATION LICENSE: Creative Commons
(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
YEAR: 2023
ISBN: 978-1-7391803-1-7
£39.99 (free shipping)
Edition for the opening of Smedjan UmArts
Umeå University Sweden
June 16 &17 2023
Funded by UmArts A Small Visionary Project Award
ISBN: 978-1-7391803-1-7
msdm publications
The first iteration was a bookwork shown at
Relate North 10: Possible Futures Symposium
and Exhibition
Yukon University (Yukon School of Visual Arts)
University of the Arctic’s Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD), and the University of Lapland [exhibition here]
January 27 & 28 2023
[see bookwork here]
The book is a photographic archive and text of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house moving (husflyttningar) in the region, through a single, historic house move in Umeå, 2021. The main frame of analysis is the spatial politics of un-building. It is an investigation of the vernacular mobility of shifting built and occupied forms in relation to a historic and future context of urban reconfiguration, a proposed architecture of de-growth in Northern Sweden. The visual work explores context through the form of the book itself. It is also a potential model that constructs and translates analysis of the space. It is a collaborative architectural work to document the house move and other spatial productions, models, drawings and collage of the space beneath and between the ground and house, image projections, exhibitions and events, as public exchange.
Contents
Preface Un-building as spatial dialogue and
moving buildings in Norrland page 7
1. Uplift page 11
Dialogue One: This is another Europe. A contextual
discussion situating the house page 35
2. The Move: Teg to Degernäs 10 Km page 45
3. Settling. After the move to Degernäs page 71
Dialogue Two: A very strange looking house and it appears to only lightly touch the ground. A discussion about the nature of the house, its interior and a small vision event page 85
4. Digital Model page 95
Essay: Moving materials and ways of life page 106
Essay: A house moved [Husflyttningar] page 122
5. Moving inside Degernäs page 139
6. Long load [Lång last] page 159
7. Sinking. Other lives of the cabin [Stuga] demolition page 175
Dialogue Three: What is this mound? A Discussion about the demolition of cabins at lake Nydala, their relation to the moving house, and a small vision event page 187
8. Sloyd model and other representations page 197
9. Husflyttningar as culture page 233
10. Ep[a]log event page 251
Volunteers Poster page 257
Acknowledgements page 260
Colophon page 264
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk