Dr Tania López Winkler
- Senior Tutor, superMATTER platform
- Interior Design MA
Dr Tania López Winkler is an educator, architect and exhibiting artist. Her research is concerned with semiotic readings of the fabric of reality and interior topologies, with particular interest in material registers of human experience and everyday fictions in their role as depositories of collective memory and creative catalysts.
Tania is leader of super MATTER in the Interior Design program. She brings her wide range of art and design practice to contribute with a creative teaching of the Interior Design field.
Tania’s current research departs from the topological and semiotic readings of material experience, and space production. with particular interest in the minute, the absurd and the marginal aspects of human inhabitation. Her practice explores the alter-ego as means to enquire different aspects of modernity manifested materially through various media and creative outcomes.
Tania holds a PhD from the Architectural Association, with her thesis 'The Detective of Modern Life'. Through the fictional figure of the Private Detective, she identified the clue as a semiotic device.
Tania’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2015 she received the Latin UK Award Visual Artist of the Year.
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Research interests
Tania's research interests are focused on the liminal space between interior space and the city (as enacted in detective fiction and manifested in architecture). Her practice explores the alter-ego as means to enquire about different aspects of modernity and the notion of ‘the normal’ through different media and creative outcomes. As she investigates ‘the normal’ her work uncovers the world of fantasy and the poetic imperfections embedded in the quotidian and the absurd.
Practice
Tania’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2015 she received the Latin UK Visual Artist of the Year Award.
Research funding
Full scholarship CONACYT of Mexico (2000–1)
This awarded scholarship funded my MA studies for the Housing and Urbanism Programme at the Architectural Association.
Full scholarship CONACYT of Mexico (2005–10)
This awarded scholarship funded my doctoral work at the Architectural Association.
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Exhibitions
2020, Postales Desde el Confinamiento. Obra Grafica. Málaga, Spain
2017, Kaleidoscope. 5 Avenue de l’Opéra, Paris
2017, Unfold. K.A.S. Gallery. Budapest, Hungary
2016, C:/Hilanda/to_be_expired/Spinning_Dreams.exe. Urban Intervention. Part of Crouch End Festival, Hornsey Town Hall, London
2015, Constructed Otherness. ARS Projects, London
2015, Shaped in Mexico Second Edition. Bargehouse OXO Tower Wharf, London
2015, Latin UK Awards 2015 Artist of the Year Showcase. Rich Mix, London
2014, Shaped in Mexico. Bargehouse OXO Tower Wharf, London
2014, El Álbum Japonés. Obra Grafica. Málaga, Spain
2014, Galería SAIE de Arquitectura Sustentable 2014. World Trade Center, México City.
