I understand learning and teaching not as the imposition of static knowledge but as a collaborative process in which I am co-learner and work with a great diversity of methods including knowledge exchange activities that reach beyond the institution.

I coordinate the Y2 lecture course 'Issues in Contemporary Architecture', supervise Y3 Special Study students, Y5/6 MArch dissertations and PhD students.

In the past, I have co-led design studios, which were linked to research projects and have led to further collaborations outside of the academy: SoftSpace and SoftPraxis (with Jeremy Till), a studio on Conisborough (with Prue Chiles) and a studio focusing on housing (with Cristina Cerulli).

My research interests centre on the social and political context of architecture. I am interested in how space is produced and used with a particular focus on an expanded and entrepreneurial understanding of the role of the architect. My research is conducted through multiple methods including actions and installations, the design of and participation in exhibitions, funded projects and writing.

The main research projects I’ve been working on over the past years include ‘Flexible Housing’ and ‘Spatial Agency’ (both in collaboration with Jeremy Till and both winners of the RIBA Research Award).

RESEARCH GRANTS & OTHER FUNDING (selection)

2011
‘E Tu Cosa Ci Vedi’
Funding for a participative study of the San Giobbe area in Venice
€20,000, Citta di Venezia (together with Frammenti)

'Taking Part'
Funding to run a workshop as part of WAVE 11
€5,000, IUAV (with Agency and Frammenti)

2010
Is the future terraced?
Funding for a 5-month research sabbatical
£6,137, Faculty RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, The University of Sheffield

2010
Collaborative and Transdisciplinary forms of Spatial Practice
Funding allowed a research visit to the Design Archives in Melbourne
£1,200, Research Stimulation Fund, The University of Sheffield

2008
Rhyzom
Funding for the creation of an interdisciplinary network
Overall project budget: Euro 380,000; Sheffield budget: €46,500, Culture 2007 (with Agency)

2006
PEPRAV
The project initiated a European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City
Overall project budget: €190,000; Sheffield budget: €22,000, Culture 2000 (With F Kossak and D Petrescu)

Alternative Architectural Praxis / Spatial Agency
A database (www.spatialagency.net), book, a series of conferences and more exploring an understanding of architecture beyond building
£189,452, AHRC (with J. Till)

2005
Notions of Modernity
Funding for study on the Arts Tower, Sheffield
£7,500, RIBA

On the Edge
Funding for a research trip through the 2005 European accession states. The research was published in the form of a foldout map.
£5,000, The Lighthouse Innovation Fund (with G.L.A.S.)

2004
Spaces of Labour
The Kulturstiftung des Bundes provided funding for a socio-economic research study on the development of the spaces of labour in the cities Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.
£7,000, German Kulturstiftung des Bundes (with G.L.A.S.)

2003
Unser Berlin / Our Berlin
Funding for local research in Berlin and the onsite production of the journal glaspaper and exhibition at the gallery AEDES in Berlin.
£8,000, British Council + The Lighthouse Innovation Fund (with G.L.A.S.)

Urban Cabaret
The grant provided research funding as well as funding for a much-publicised 2-week event and the production of the first issue of glaspaper.
£8,675 (Scottish Arts Council (with G.L.A.S.))

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITY

2010
St Luke’s Community Project (Partner organisation: RIBA and South Essex Homes; Researchers: Melanie Bax and Sarah Considine)
Funding for the creation of a temporary structure / built intervention built in the central space of St. Luke’s, Southend-on-Sea – Cluny Square.
£10,000, Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield

Community Developed Housing (Partner organisation: 00:// architects, researcher: Alastair Parvin)
Through research and interviews the project constructs a case for the economic and social dynamics of collaborative development models, and discusses viability in relation to business and policy.
£9,764 (with C. Cerulli), Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield

We heart the Suburbs (Partner organisation: St. Luke’s Healthy Living Centre in Southend-on-Sea; researchers: Melanie Bax and Sarah Considine)
The project builds on the research Alternative Architectural Praxis / Spatial Agency and engages with suburbia through an interactive exhibition and event that uncovers and celebrates suburban culture.
£7,331, Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield

Collaborative and Participatory Stories – Exemplary projects (Partner organisation: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, CABE; researchers: Melanie Bax, Sarah Considine and Adam Towle)
The project took 9 examples from the research project Alternative Architectural Praxis / Spatial Agency and revisited these in the context of CABE’s library of exemplary projects.
£9,387, Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield

2009
Establishing a collaborative approach to learning and teaching
The funding allowed us to critically reflect on a collaboratively run design studio, to write about the processes and methodologies together with our students, and to speculate on how a collaborative teaching setup would be valuable and replicable in the future.
£4,070 (with C. Cerulli), IBL GRANT, Cilass - University of Sheffield

Theory Forum Ecology
The project built on existing innovative practice within the school to promote and support student led initiatives in the curriculum. Funding from Cilass allowed us to establish a platform for an empowered discourse amongst staff and students and to foster better connections between the design studio and lecture-based parts of the course.
£3,930 (with AGENCY), IBL GRANT, Cilass - University of Sheffield

2007
This building should have some sort of distinctive shape
Funding to cover printing cost for 1,000 copies of my book on the Arts Tower
£3,850, Department of Estates, University of Sheffield

AWARDS

2012
- shortlisted - RIBA Research Award – Practice based research
A Right to Build
Member of the research team

2011
RIBA Research Award - Outstanding University-located Research
Spatial Agency
with Jeremy Till

2007
RIBA Research Award - Outstanding University-located Research
Flexible Housing
with Jeremy Till

2004
National Achievement Award
G.L.A.S.
Scottish Executive and The Lighthouse (£5,000)
G.L.A.S received the inaugural prize in recognition of the co-operative’s outstanding contribution to a critical dissemination of architectural knowledge.

EXTERNAL - COMPLETED
Harboe, Lisbet, ‘Contemporary Architecture and Social Engagement. Ethics as a generator of
architectural working strategies’, AHO (Oslo, Norway), Co-supervisor (2007-2011).

INTERNAL - 1ST SUPERVISOR
Martinez-Perez, Alona. ‘Edge City’, 1st supervisor (since April 2011, part time)
Van Elk, Maria. ‘Does the appropriator shape space or does space shape the appropriator? Form
follows function or function follows form.’ 1st supervisor (since August 2011, part-time)

INTERNAL - 2ND SUPERVISOR
Fraser, Carl. ‘The Protest Space’, 2nd supervisor (since June 2011, full-time)

INVITED EXTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL LECTURES (selection)

2001-2012

Architecture + Writing symposium, KTH, Stockholm

‘Acting Otherwise’, Sheffield School of Architecture

‘The future of architecture and the architect’, Oxford Architectural Society, December

‘Other productions of Space’, Wonderland symposium, Vienna, October

‘This house believes schools of architecture should be dissolved’, Sheffield School of Architecture

‘Taking Part’, IUAV

Research Symposium, KTH, Stockholm, 20 May

Qui è Ora: Spazio e tempo Pubblici, Turin

Further Reading Required, UCL

‘Spatial agency and the politics of space’, Ljubljana

‘Hard times/Soft space: Collaborative Approaches to the Production of Housing’, RIBA Yorkshire Conference

Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)

RMIT, Melbourne

Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo, Norway

‘Unpacking the myth: Power to the people; Consensus Design and Social Capital’ – Ecobuild London

‘Bringing new developments in social sciences into design education’ – Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)
‘What architects also do’ – RIBA Research Symposium ‘Changing Practices’

‘Lesarten zeitgenössischer Raumproduktion’ – Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria

‘Architecture Fiddles While the World Burns’ – Bauhaus Universität Weimar

‘Über die Fähigkeit anderweitig zu agieren’ – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Architektur (OeGfA), Wien / Project Space - Kunsthalle Wien

‘Alternative Currents’ – 2nd Camp for Oppositional Architecture, Utrecht

‘The opportunities of flexible housing’ – European Network for Housing Research, Reykjavik

‘Printed Matter. Glaspaper’ (with F Kossak) – OSA, Oslo

‘spaces of labour’ (with F Kossak) – Manifesta, Liverpool

‘Women in Architecture 1890-1940s’ – Glasgow University

‘The workers co-operative Glasgow Letters on Architeture and Space’ (with F Kossak and A Atlee) – Protoacademy, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

‘Crossing Boundaries’ (with F Kossak, J Barber and A Atlee) – Architecture Foundation and London Borough of Camden, London

‘G.L.A.S. and glaspaper’ (with F Kossak and A Atlee) – Bauhaus, Dessau

‘alternative modes of knowledge dissemination: glaspaper’ (with F Kossak and A Atlee) – Popular Education Forum, Glasgow

PROJECT WEBSITES

www.spatialagency.net
is the accompanying website to the research project Alternative Architectural Praxis / Spatial Agency, which has received over 250,000 hits from across the world (159 countries) since it went live in January 2010. The project features on numerous blogs and twitter entries, which has helped to make the project extremely prominent.

www.afewthoughts.co.uk/flexiblehousing/
is the accompanying website to the research project Flexible Housing (live since 2006) and is used by practitioners and as an educational resource around the world.

ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES / SYMPOSIA

Changing Practices, 2009
RIBA (with Jeremy Till)
250 delegates from practice, policy, government agencies, NGOs as well as academia

Agency, 2008
5th International AHRA conference
The University of Sheffield (with Agency Research Centre)
major international academic conference with 70 delegates and 120 UK based students

Alternate Currents, 2007
The University of Sheffield (with Jeremy Till)
40 academic delegates and participants from all over the world including Brazil, Canada, the
USA, the Netherlands, Germany as well as 120 students from the UK

Flexible Housing, 2007
The Building Centre, London (with Jeremy Till)
Attended by ca. 100 housing practitioners

Live Projects and Alternative Ways of Practice, 2006
Workshop, Live Project and Symposium, Vestry Hall Community Centre, Sheffield (with D. Petrescu, IYO and PEPRAV), 6 talks, 40 participants (architects/artists/ activists/public)

Flexible Housing, 2005
The University of Sheffield (with Jeremy Till)
ca. 100 delegates from academia, government agencies and housing developers (private and public)

EXTERNAL EXAMINING

2012 Manchester School of Architecture

The Agency research group (2009). “Review Article. Before and After AGENCY.” Footprint (4): 113-122.

Schneider, T. and J. Till (2008). “Alternate Currents: an introduction.” Architectural Research Quarterly, vol 12 (2): 109-11.

Schneider, T. and J. Till (2008). “Editorial: Alternate currents.” field:, vol 2 (1): 1-5.

Schneider, T. and J. Till (2007). “Alternate Currents.” An Architektur (18): 6-13.

Schneider, T. and J. Till (2006). “Flexible Housing: Opportunities and Limits.” Architectural Research Quarterly (2): 157-166.

Till, J. and T. Schneider (2006). “Flexible Housing : Hard and Soft.” Architectural Research Quarterly (3): 287-296.

Schneider, T. (2005). “Profitopolis, or, The Corporate Landscape of Theming.” building material (13): 38-41.

NON-REFEREED ARTICLES, REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Schneider, T. (2012). Seeing beyond the heroic male member and sharing credit where it’s due. In: Architecural Review (April): 22.

Schneider, T., Till, J. and N. Awan (2011). “Participation and the context of Spatial Agency.” Architect’s Bulletin (188/189): 90-93.

Schneider, T. and J. Till (2011). “Beyond Building.” Architecture Today (218): 10-14.

Schneider, T. (2011). “Response: The shadow of economic history: the architecture of boom, slump and crisis.” arq 14 (5): 395-7.

Schneider, T. (2011). “The future for architects?” School of Architecture Studio Journal (2): 2-4.

Kossak, F. and T. Schneider (2011). “To whom it may concern.” Conditions (7).

Schneider, T. (2009). “What architects also do...”, RIBA Research Symposium, RIBA, London.
Schneider, T. and J. Till (2008). “Changing rooms.” RIBA journal 115 (2): 72-74.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2007). GLASmanual. Glasgow: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2006). On the Edge. Glasgow: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

Kossak, F., Petrescu, D. and T. Schneider (2006). “Reflection on IYO and its role in PEPRAV.” IYO (1): 1-34.

Atlee, A., J. Barber, F. Kossak and T. Schneider (2005). “The Preliminary Charter of Oppositional Architecture.” AnArchitektur (14): 66-67.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2004). Spaces of Labour. Berlin: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2003). Unser Berlin / Our Berlin. Berlin: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

Schneider, T. (2005). “Theme parks and power relationships.” eselsohr (2): 12-14.

Schneider, T. (2003). “Japon: Voyage dans les Parcs à Thème.” Archiscopie: 18-22.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2003). A-Z of War. Glasgow: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2002). Education and Learning. Glasgow: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

Schneider, T. (2002). “Lost in Kings Cross. A documentation of G.L.A.S.‘s contribution to the Futoropa Workshop organised by the Architecture Foundation, London.” glaspaper (4): 6-7.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2002). Production. Glasgow: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

Schneider, T. (2002). “Around the World in Twenty Minutes.” glaspaper (3): 12-13.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2002). Movement and Transport. Glasgow: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

Schneider, T. (2002). “Motorways, New Towns, and Towerblocks.” glaspaper (2): 12-13.

Schneider, T. (2002). “Rosie Kane: I hope the Motorway will never be built.” glaspaper (2): 14.

G.L.A.S. (eds.) (2001). Urban Cabaret. Glasgow: Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space.

Schneider, T. (2001). “Themepark Old Glasgow.” glaspaper (1).