Gordon Gibb's presentation about the debacle of mismanagement around the two fires at #GlasgowSchoolOfArt is sad and compelling, available to stream online for the next few weeks.
#GlasgowSchoolOfArt
My absolutely favourite piece of mid-80s Glasgow bubblegum artpop: Strawberry Switchblade -- Since Yesterday — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QPBzAJ_io
Continuing the theme of weird stuff that's been appearing around Glasgow lately, I spotted this sign on the morning dog walk at the humpback bridge on the Kelvin Walkway. It seems even Luke Skywalker and Han Solo need signposts to find their way around a galaxy far, far away!
#glasgow #kelvinwalkway #signs #starwars #glasgowschoolofart #keepglasgowweird #kesselrun
The castle-like entrance to Glasgow School of Art's Haldane Building on Hill Street. It was originally built in 1897 as a drill hall and headquarters for the 1st Volunteer Batallion of the Highland Light Infantry, and was designed by the wonderfully named Horatio K. Bromhead.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowschoolofart #drillhall #architecturephotography
The problem with men of a certain age | Brief letters https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/dec/02/the-problem-with-men-of-a-certain-age #GlasgowSchoolofArt #Television&radio #GreggWallace #PrinceAndrew #Lifeandstyle #NotreDame #JudiDench #Language #Culture #UKnews #Books #Pets
Glasgow School of Art: wrangles, delays and challenges of a faithful reconstruction ten years on https://theconversation.com/glasgow-school-of-art-wrangles-delays-and-challenges-of-a-faithful-reconstruction-ten-years-on-236728 #Glasgow #GlasgowSchoolOfArt #CharlesRennieMackintosh @duille
Deemed surplus to current requirements, it's now being sold off to help oay for repairs to the schools's Makintosh building, which was damaged by fires in 2014 and 2018.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowschoolofart #beatsonhospital #garnethill
The 1898 former nurse's home on Hill Street in Glasgow. Buil as part of the Beatson Hospital, one of the world's first hospital dedicated to treating cancer, which had moved into a building on the other side of the street in 1890. In 1973, it became part of the nearby Glasgow School of Art.
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There's a good article by Rosemary Hill in the current #LRB on #GlasgowSchoolOfArt and the morass after the destruction caused by the two fires in 2014 and 2018.
"It is difficult to construe [the current reworking of an addendum to the GSA's Strategic Outline Business Case] as anything other than an attempt to look busy while nothing happens and nothing is explained."
Just learning of the #GlasgowSchoolOfArt also deciding to leave #X / #Twitter... not seeing a Mastodon presence yet, but it would be welcome...
How #MurielGray and her board dare to hold their heads up is beyond me. The second fire should never, ever, EVER have happened. No night watchman ? Not even a battery powered fire alarm?
#UtterlyIncompetent is the politest phrase I can find to describe them.
Today, we walked by these eye-catching #Italianate farm buildings at #Altyre near #Forres – they were constructed in the 1830’s, and have now been renovated as a #CreativeCampus for #GlasgowSchoolofArt - the friendly robin is at nearby #BlairsLoch ... 😀
#walking #Moray #Scotland
Here's another hashtag that might help people find me ...
Investigation into Glasgow School of Art fire fails to find "definitive cause"
An inquiry into the cause of the fire that destroyed the Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building in 2018 has failed to reach a conclusion due to insufficient evidence.
Carried out by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) over three years, the report issued yesterday records the exact cause of the fire as "undetermined".
According to the SFRS, this is the result of the extensive damage to the site caused by the fire, and in turn, the loss of potentially vital evidence.
"We were unable to find sufficient evidence to support any credible origin and it has not been possible to establish a definitive cause," concluded SFRS deputy chief officer Ross Haggart.
"Unfortunately, almost everything within the building was severely damaged or consumed in the fire and that included any potential items of evidence that could have provided those answers."
"Hundreds of tonnes" of evidence examined
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh building fire took place on 15 June, as the restoration of the building following an earlier fire in 2014 neared completion.
In the report, it is revealed that fifty per cent of the building was alight within 38 minutes of the firefighters arriving at the site.
The Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh was destroyed in a fire. Photo is courtesy of the Glasgow School of Art
More than 120 firefighters were needed to extinguish the blaze, with their operations continuing for 10 days after. There were no casualties.
The investigation into the fire, which concluded on 30 September 2021, involved the physical examination of "hundreds of tonnes of fire-damaged debris", according to the SFRS.
Analysis of witness testimonies, CCTV and photographic footage was also involved.
Fire likely to have started on fourth floor
Though the cause of the fire was inconclusive, the SFRS report found that the fire is likely to have started on the building's east side, on or above its fourth floor.
It added that the "uncontrolled fire growth and rapid development" was believed to have been exacerbated by the restoration works and an unlimited air supply fed through a duct system.
"Due to the nature of the ongoing restoration and construction works combined with other factors such as the air supply into the building, the fire was unfortunately able to take hold, spread and ultimately cause catastrophic damage," explained Haggart.
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The report adds that the initial observations of the building's exterior following the fire found a "failure of approximately 97 per cent of the windows, severe spalling of the sandstone outer facade, warping of steel beams and severe fire and heat damage to the scaffolding structure that encased the building".
Its roof structure had also perished, alongside the interior timber flooring and ceilings, with just stone, brick and steel structural members remaining.
Architect Steven Holl's extension to the school was also damaged in the event. The building's rain shield sustained heat damage and required replacing.
"We will rebuild"
In 2019, The Times reported that a high-pressure mist suppression system, which was almost completely installed at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building, survived the smaller fire in 2014 "largely intact" and "would have saved" it if it had not been removed.
These claims were rebuffed by the Glasgow School of Art, which claimed the fire in 2014 meant "considerable elements of the system were destroyed or damaged" and left it "unusable".
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Glasgow School of Art was completed in 1909 and is the best-known building designed by Mackintosh, Scotland's most famous architect.
Shortly after the blaze, the director of the Glasgow School of Art Tom Inns said that it will be rebuilt.
"It is as vital a part of the Glasgow School of Art's future as it has been for the last 100 years," Inns told Dezeen. "We will rebuild so that 'the Mack' can continue to provide creative inspiration to students, staff and visitors."
The main image is by Jeff J Mitchell.
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Students to sue The Glasgow School of Art for "underprovided education" during pandemic
A group of architecture and design students plans to sue The Glasgow School of Art over its alleged failure to provide adequate education during the coronavirus pandemic and for cancelling their degree shows.
The group has hired law firm Harper Macleod and has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund their legal challenge for alleged "underprovided education".
The group, called Art School Racket, consists of around 35 students from courses including architecture, fashion and design innovation as well as the Masters of Letters (MLitt) in Fine Art Practice course.
Teaching and degree show cancelled
Students were six months into their courses when the first UK lockdown happened in March 2020. According to the group, the Scottish school then "chose to cancel the remaining seven weeks of the semester, two days after campus closed".
"We had no contact from our tutors for 10 weeks whilst other universities, like the University of Glasgow, were tutoring students online within a few weeks," the group said. "GSA management instructed tutors not to speak to us during this time."
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) degree show was also cancelled, which meant students missed out on meetings with curators, galleries and collectors, which they say is another key reason for studying at the school.
"We've still not got our promised degree show," said the group's spokesperson Penny Anderson. "We've had talks, it's been promised, there were various surveys on what we wanted, but so far nothing concrete."
Students offered remote-learning option
The school eventually gave students the option to continue with remote learning, or withdraw from their courses with no assurance of future re-entry, according to the student group.
There was a "limited amount of Zoom tutorials very late and after lockdown was lifted in late July last year, roughly one month before our final submission deadline," Anderson said.
However, she said remote learning wasn't a possibility for many of the students at the school.
The school was previously located in a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building (shown above before it was damaged in a fire) and has an extension by Steven Holl (top image)
"There was no way Mlitt sculptors, a sizeable group of the complainants, could do welding in a shared lounge, or printmakers work without printmaking facilities," Anderson said.
According to the students, the issues during lockdown came after an "already disrupted year for our cohort, impacted by mismanaged studio and workshop access, University and College Union strikes and closure of the student union".
Complaints rejected by the school
Art School Racket said it had appealed to the school through the internal complaint procedure, asking for a pause option that would suspend studies until it is safe to return to campus learning and for a partial refund of fees to reflect the difference between studio-based and remote learning.
It said its complaints were rejected by the school.
A spokesperson for the school said: "The complaints in question went through the GSA’s complaints process, the final stage of which is for the complainants to ask the independent Scottish Public Services Ombudsman [SPSO] to review the matter."
"The SPSO briefly looked at the complaint that we had submitted to GSA internally," said Art School Racket spokesperson Harriet Orrey-Godden. "GSA had rejected all of our complaint points and the SPSO decided they agreed with GSA. They rejected a full investigation."
Auction to raise money for legal fees
In addition to launching the crowdfunding campaign, the student group is preparing an auction of work donated by students, as well as two pieces by architect Alan Dunlop, a former tutor at the school, to fund the legal challenge.
"There was no remaining viable alternative than legal action, otherwise the GSA will continue to lure us into the sausage machine of cuts to budgets but increased fees and reduced facilities," Anderson said of the group's decision to sue the school.
The pandemic disrupted education around the world, with many design schools switching to remote learning in spring last year and cancelling degree shows.
Earlier this year, students at the Royal College of Art in London protested proposed plans to scrap physical degree shows.
A survey conducted by Dezeen and Bath School of Design in February found that one in four students said their wellbeing has suffered while studying from home during the pandemic, although half of them saw advantages in remote learning.
The Glasgow School of Art was founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Art and Design and focuses on education in the visual creative disciplines, with degrees in architecture, design, fine art, simulation and visualisation and innovation.
It has 2,500 students and was ranked third in the UK, fifth in Europe and eighth in the world for art and design in the QS World University Rankings for art and design in 2021.
The university used to be located in a Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building that was significantly damaged in a 2018 fire, following another blaze in 2014. The building's structure has been stabilised and ongoing site clearance works are continuing.
A collection of Glasgow School of Art students recently showed their graduate collection virtually as a Dezeen School Show.
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Glasgow School of Art presents 10 projects from architecture, design and innovation students
Dezeen's latest school show by students at the Glasgow School of Art includes a space aiming to improve lives affected by addiction and a project designed to enhance people's relationship with their houseplants.
Other projects include a jewellery collection that becomes animated once positioned on the body and a residential performance hall designed to transform young people's lives through music education.
Glasgow School of Art
School: Glasgow School of Art
School: Architecture, Design and Innovation
School statement:
"The Glasgow School of Art (the GSA) was founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Design, as a centre of creativity promoting good design for the manufacturing industries of Glasgow.
"Today, as one of the UK's last independent schools of art, it is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading university-level institutions for the visual and creative disciplines. It is a diverse community of over 2,500 students studying across the schools of Architecture; Design; Fine Art; Simulation and Visualisation; and Innovation."
Encounter your plant by Pauline Barbier
"This experiment is about enhancing your relationship with one of your houseplants. It is about slowing down and paying attention to your plant.
"I have developed three hybrid pots. Lazzy-Pot proposes a new way of observing plants from underneath while maintaining comfort. Stool-Pot brings you face-to-face with the plant and invites you into a conversation through observation. As plants emit ultrasounds and their frequencies increase when under stress in drought, the Phono-Pot becomes the tool to respond to plant's water needs by listening to them."
Student:Pauline Barbier
Course: Innovation School – MEDes: Product Design
Television Snacks and Tiaras by Poppy Brooks
"Created during the trying circumstances of the global pandemic, the collection is inspired by the collective experience and shared emotions of the British public isolated during a national lockdown. It aims to bring comfort and offer an antidote through fashion.
"My research focused on British heritage, the nation pulling together, both in the past and present, seeking reassurance from national figures such as the Queen, NHS, and romanticising ideas of comfort in the home. Designs juxtapose oversized clothing and generous silhouettes, suggestive of the social parties we once enjoyed and look forward to."
Student:Poppy Brooks **
Course:** School of Design – BA (Hons) Fashion Design
Harvesting Light, sheep shelter camera and bird hide camera by Tara Drummie
"Harvesting Light is an ongoing body of work motivated by a symbiotic relationship between humans and the land, inspired by the crofters who encourage the rare and bio-diverse machair ecosystem prevalent on the Isle of North Uist to thrive. Sheep shelter camera, bird hide camera, and horsebox camera reflect a collaboration between the more-than-human assemblages of the machair and the maker.
"The works are time-based and site-specific to North Uist, exclusively using matter found within a given environment to create a camera obscura, appropriately disposing of any harmful debris found on site upon a work's completion."
Student:Tara Drummie **
Course:** School of Design – BA (Hons) Communication Design (Photography)
Safe Consumption and Addiction Support Centre by Kirsty Gaunt
"In 2018, the number of drug-related deaths in Scotland was 1,187 – higher than any other European country. This awful statistic made me determined to use my creativity to help improve people's lives affected by addiction.
"My design is focused on providing a supportive environment to reduce overdose deaths, blood-borne virus transmission and ultimately encourage people to lead healthier lives.
"I wanted to design a space that was loving and made people who inhabit the space feel valued. All the different details and considerations show visitors that people do care about them."
Student:Kirsty Gaunt **
Course:** School of Design – BA (Hons) Interior Design ** **
Assembling Communities by Disassembly by Rebecca Hodalova
"This is a speculative design for disassembly infrastructure. It aims to reactive the disused sites around Glasgow by designing a prefabricated kit of parts, which will be used where communities are not being catered for by any of the existing free cultural institutions, public libraries and community centres.
"Situated at the old Bellgrove Meat Market, sitting on top of a railway line, is the new Headquarters factory – a place of prefabrication, education, workshops, and community collaboration. The architecture of this factory reminisces the historical industrial sheds that used to dominate this area."
Student:Rebecca Hodalova **
Course:** Mackintosh School of Architecture – Dip Arch (ARB/RIBA Part 2), year 5 ** **
Proposal for a music centre on the shores of Loch Lomond by Abby Hopes
"Sistema Scotland's Big Noise programme transforms young people's lives through music education while 'making do' in the constraints of their built environment. The creation of a residential retreat/performance hall in my proposal facilitates the culture of Sistema, driven by the variety of scales in which they gather.
"Ownership over space is central to my concept, allowing the young people to feel a sense of belonging in the public and private realm of Balloch. To 'make do' assumes to settle for lesser, but with the climate emergency, we must use what we already have to our advantage."
Student:Abby Hopes **
Course:** Mackintosh School of Architecture – BArch (ARB/RIBA part 1), Year 3
Digital behaviours Co by Maria Marinescu-Ducas
"Digital pollution is responsible for 4 per cent of global CO2 emissions, more than the entire civil aviation sector. People should have the tools and awareness to make more ecological digital decisions in how they store their data, engage with streaming and behave digitally.
"As a speculative design, Digital behaviours Co provides a holistic and mindful digital experience – a one-stop-shop to digital environmentalism. The idea is to create less digital pollution and bring more awareness to the issue. Collectively spreading this knowledge and taking the problem into our own hands, we can prevent the projected and ongoing escalation of digital waste."
Student:Maria Marinescu-Ducas **
Course:** Innovation School – BDes: Product Design ** **
Kinetic Nature by Cara Smith
"Kinetic Nature is a collection of jewellery pieces that heighten the presence of nature in the wider landscape and its relationship to the human body, through texture, form, repetition, transformation and movement.
"The jewellery pieces are sculptures intended to become animated once positioned on the body – to become bodily extensions. As nature changes, it gifts us with fleeting phenomena. These moments are captured in these activated body adornments, such as the life cycle of the dandelion head changing from yellow to translucent, and then as motion, like a bird in flight."
Student:Cara Smith **
Course:** School of Design - BA (Hons) Silversmithing and Jewellery
Alka by Ben Sammut
"The need for clean air in the home is important but often disregarded by people due to a lack of awareness on the topic. Alka is a companion that cleans and cultivates air while working from home. It is designed to live and work alongside house plants to maintain a healthy environment indoors.
"Aside from cleaning the air from pollutants using certified natural filters such as hemp and activated carbon (something typical air purifiers do), Alka uses algae called spirulina to capture CO2 – an indoor air pollutant linked to a loss of concentration."
Student:Ben Sammut **
Course:** School of Design – MEng Product Design Engineering ** **
Useless Machines by Kialy Tihngang
"The unexpected combinations of colours, textures and shapes within electronic waste have informed Useless Machines. I was inspired by the garish and ugly innards of discarded laptops and phones, which greatly contrast with the sleek designs of their outer shells.
"As a comment on the increasing disposability of consumer electronics, which are often dumped in the global south, I have created a collection of objects that mimic the aesthetics of e-waste and mock the movements of machinery.
"The machines are wrapped in materials – found fabrics and industry donations – to differentiate them from the mass-produced, impersonal products that currently litter landfill."
Student:Kialy Tihngang **
Course:** School of Design – BA (Hons) Textile Design ** **
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Zum zweiten Mal innerhalb weniger Jahre hat ein Großbrand das historische Mackintosch-Gebäude der Kunsthochschule in Glasgow massiv beschädigt. Kunstwelt und Politiker äußerten sich schockiert. www.dw.com/de/feuer-verwüstet… #GlasgowSchoolofArt #Schottland #Großfeuer #TurnerPrize
Zum zweiten Mal innerhalb weniger Jahre hat ein Großbrand das historische Mackintosch-Gebäude der Kunsthochschule in Glasgow massiv beschädigt. Kunstwelt und Politiker äußerten sich schockiert. www.dw.com/de/feuer-verwüstet… #GlasgowSchoolofArt #Schottland #Großfeuer #TurnerPrize
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