Thomas Parsons
MA work
MA work
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Knife
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Worktop
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Domestic Island, Minimum Dwelling (work in progress)
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Domestic and Industrial Dining
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Cutlery
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Domestic Island, Minimum Dwelling Maximum Working (work in progress
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Portland Works, Domestic Insertions
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Broomhall, Workshop Insertions
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Moor, Workshop and Domestic Insertions
Re-Industrial Devolution
'Re-industrial Devolution' proposes an alternative future for Sheffield's 'Northern Powerhouse'. The project was about developing a mode of working through making and learning from others. A series of fabrications sought to find a way of living in the process of making them as much as in their utility as complete objects. In philosophical terms, this was a way to study ethics.Â
Through the process of developing and making a series of household objects a way of working was formed, based on learning from others and making use of computer aided material processes. Ways of changing how we live and work, how industry and domesticity can recombine, were explored through the production and use of the objects. The approach of developing designs with unexpected and unusual results has been applied to three proposals, for which a prototype was built in a garage in central Sheffield.
As an alternative Northern Powerhouse, this project provides a way of reindustrialising the city
fabric through well placed light touch interventions, mixing industrial and
domestic spaces to produce "empowering spatial, and hence social, relationships
in the name of others."
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Architecture
Programme
MA Architecture, 2016
Specialism
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Contact
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07855 140502
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Tom is interested in making, crafts and craftsmanship, learning from others and places that enable and empower. His thesis project 'Re-industrial Devolution' proposed an alternative future for Sheffield's 'Northern Powerhouse’, inspired by George Osborne’s new policies at the time. The project was about developing a mode of working through making and learning from others. Tom made a series of household items, and sought to find a 'way of living' in the process of making them, as much as in their utility as finished tools.
Tom’s Distinction awarded dissertation 'Architecture Pending' interrogated Jeremy Till’s book 'Architecture Depends', testing its philosophical grounding and ethical strategies.
In his first year at the RCA, Thomas was involved in a project for Tate Britain as a part of a major Barbara Hepworth retrospective. His personal project proposed a Language College to reverse a dwindling population on Inis Meáin, a small island on the atlantic coast of Ireland.
Before studying at the RCA, Thomas Parsons was awarded a First Class Degree in BA (Hons) Architecture by the the University of Sheffield in 2013.Â
Since graduating from the RCA, Tom completed his professional qualifications and now runs his own RIBA Chartered Architecture Practice.
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Degrees
- BA Architecture, University of Sheffield, 2013