I have been teaching students of architecture in various capacities since 2001. I understand learning and teaching not as the imposition of static knowledge but as a process in which I am co-learner.

Within the School of Architecture, my responsibilities cover Undergraduate, Masters level, Postgraduate Taught Masters and PhD level. I work with a great diversity of teaching and assessment methods but with a strong focus on inquiry-based learning, which connects practice, research and teaching. I continue to work with students through research and knowledge exchange activities beyond the institution.

I am coordinator of the Special Study (ARC 322), coordinator of the lecture course ‘Issues in Contemporary Architecture’ (ARC 204/254) and deliver lectures as part of the Y3 Urban Histories course (ARC 303/353).

I also mentor Live Projects (ARC 552) and have been involved in the Theory Forum series since 2007 (ARC 553).

I supervise dissertations (ARC 556/566) and have collaborated with colleagues on MArch Design studios, which were often linked to research projects and have led to further collaborations outside of the academy.

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 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. Whilst my outputs are diverse, all my work revolves around the politics of spatial production.

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).

With G.L.A.S. research focused around works, actions and publications that highlighted socio-economic struggles and injustices as expressed through built form with the ultimate aim to present a different way of how to practice architecture.

RESEARCH GRANTS

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

2010
Research Stimulation Fund, The University of Sheffield
£1,200
Collaborative and Transdisciplinary forms of Spatial Practice
Funding allowed a research visit to the Design Archives in Melbourne and the engagement in a series of conversations about the notion of collectivity in design practice.

2008
Culture 2007 (with Agency)
(Overall project budget: Euro 380,000; Sheffield budget: €46,500)
Rhyzom
Funding made the creation of an interdisciplinary network possible. It allowed research visits and collaborations with partners in Istanbul, London, Belfast and Paris.

2006 Culture 2000 (With F Kossak and D Petrescu)
(Overall project budget: €190,000; Sheffield budget: €22,000)
European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City (PEPRAV)
The project initiated a European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City that articulates the work of 4 teams putting together their activity in different contexts (Paris, Sheffield, Brussels, Berlin), their networks, knowledge and experiences.

2006
AHRC (With J. Till)
£189,452
Alternative Architectural Praxis / Spatial Agency

2005
Royal Institute of British Architects
£7,500
Notions of Modernity
Competitive Funding for a comprehensive historical study on the Arts Tower and the social and political conditions through which the building was shaped
This funding resulted in the book ‘This building should have some sort of distinctive shape. The story of the Arts Tower in Sheffield.’

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

2004
German Kulturstiftung des Bundes (with G.L.A.S.)
£7,000
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.

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

2002
Scottish Arts Council
£1,000
Study visits to the Documenta X and the event Urban Catalyst

2002
Royal Academy of Engineering (£1,000) & University of Strathclyde (£500)
An investigation into the economy of Japanese theme parks
Funding for research interviews and case study visits in Japan

2001
Scottish Arts Council (with G.L.A.S.)
£8,675
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.

2000
University of Strathclyde
PhD scholarship
Mechanisms of the Themed Environment

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITY

2010
Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield
£10,000
St Luke’s Community Project (Partner organisation: RIBA and South Essex Homes) The overall aim of the project is to create a temporary structure / built intervention for the summer months of 2011 to be built in the central space of St. Luke’s, Southend-on-Sea – Cluny Square. This structure will not only form a much-needed centre point of activity in the community, but also fully engage local residents in the design process helping to consolidate a sense of community.

2010
Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield
£9,764 (with C. Cerulli)
Community Developed Housing (Partner organisation: 00:// architects)
Through research and interviews the project will aim to understand, and construct a case for the economic and social dynamics of collaborative development models, and discuss viability in relation to business and policy.

2010
Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield
£7,331
We heart the Suburbs (Partner organisation: St. Luke’s Healthy Living Centre in Southend-on-Sea)
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.

2010
Rapid Response Knowledge Transfer Programme, The University of Sheffield
£9,387
Collaborative and Participatory Stories – Exemplary projects (Partner organisation: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, CABE)
The project takes 9 examples from the research project Alternative Architectural Praxis / Spatial Agency and revisits these in the context of CABE’s library of exemplary projects. The work and the wider context of the research were presented at a Lunch & Learn session at CABE on 21 September 2010.

2009
IBL GRANT, Cilass - University of Sheffield
£4,070 (with C. Cerulli)
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.

2009
IBL GRANT, Cilass - University of Sheffield
£3,930 (with AGENCY)
Theory Forum 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.

2007
Department of Estates, University of Sheffield
£3,850
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

2006
Housing Corporation, Innovation and Good Practice Programme
£16,000 (with J. Till)
Flexible Housing – A Guide
Funding for the production of a guide on Flexible Housing, which was distributed, to 300 developing housing associations at the time.

AWARDS

2011
RIBA Research Award – Shortlisted
Spatial Agency
Outstanding University-located Research

2007
RIBA Research Award
Flexible Housing
Outstanding University-located Research

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.

1st supervisor
Alona Martinez-Perez. ‘Edge City’

2nd supervisor
Carl Fraser. ‘The Protest Space’
Lisbet Harboe, ‘Adressing the social in architecture’ (AHO)

INVITED EXTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL LECTURES

2011
Invited to run 1 of 30 workshops as part of the Venice Summer School, 25 June – 16 July (with Agency and fram_menti)

Research Symposium – KTH, Stockholm, 20 May

Qui è Ora: Spazio e tempo Pubblici – Turin, 14/15 March

Further Reading Required – UCL 18 February

‘spatial agency and the politics of space’ – Ljubljana, 11 January

2010
‘Hard times/Soft space: Collaborative Approaches to the Production of Housing’ – RIBA Yorkshire Conference, Leeds, 14 September

‘architecture = building’ – Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)

collective – RMIT, Melbourne

‘Spatial Agency and the context of education’: invited speaker - Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo, Norway

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

2009
‘Bringing new developments in social sciences into design education’ – Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)

‘What architects also do’ – RIBA Research Symposium ‘Changing Practices’

‘The Invisible Ethic: The Motivations of Spatial Agency’ (with Prof J Till) – Nottingham University

‘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

2006
‘Alternative Currents’ – 2nd Camp for Oppositional Architecture, Utrecht

2005
‘The opportunities of flexible housing’ – European Network for Housing Research, Reykjavik

2004
‘Printed Matter. Glaspaper’ (with F Kossak) – OSA, Oslo

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

2003
‘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

2002
‘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

2001
‘alternative modes of knowledge dissemination: glaspaper’ (with F Kossak and A Atlee) – Popular Education Forum, Glasgow

BOOKS
Schneider, T., Till, J. and N. Awan (2011). Spatial Agency. Other Ways of Doing Architecture. London: Routledge.

Cerulli, C., Schneider, T. and A. Towle (2011). Come collaborate with me! Sheffield: PAR.

Parvin, A., Saxby, D., Cerulli, C. and T. Schneider (2011). A right to build. London: 00:/.

Kossak, F., Petrescu, D., Schneider, T., Tyszczuk, R. and S. Walker (eds.) (2009). Agency – Working with uncertain architectures. London: Routledge.

Schneider, T. (2008). This building should have some sort of distinctive shape. The story of the Arts Tower in Sheffield. Sheffield: PAR.

Schneider, T. and J. Till (2007). Flexible Housing. London: Architectural Press.

Kossak, F., Petrescu, D., Schneider, T. and IYO (eds.) (2007). Live Projects and Alternative Ways of Practice: The Live Project ‘Live Project’. Sheffield: Agency Research Centre.

Schneider, T. and J. Till (2006). Flexible Housing – A Guide. London: Bank of Ideas.

BOOK CHAPTERS
Schneider, T. (2011). Architecture Fiddles while the World Burns. In: Jormakka, K. and O. Pfeiffer (eds.), Architecture in the Age of Empire. Weimar, Bauhaus Verlag.

Schneider, T. (2011). Discard the Axiom. In: Doucet, I. and Janssens, N. (eds.), Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism. Springer Verlag.

Cerulli, C, Kossak, F., Petrescu, D., and T. Schneider (2010). Agencies of Live Projects. In: Trans-Local-Act: Cultural Practices within and across. Paris: aaa: 172-210.

Kossak, F., Petrescu, D., Schneider, T., Tyszczuk, R. and S. Walker (2009). Agency: working with uncertain architectures. In: Agency: working with uncertain architectures. London, Routledge: 1-18.

Kossak, F. and T. Schneider (2007). G.L.A.S. UrbanAct. Paris, aaa: 130-141.

Steidle, O., Kossak, F., Möller, H. and T. Schneider (2001). Unity and fragmentation. In: Paris Olympique. Twelve architectural and Urban Planning Projects for the 2008 Games. Paris, Le Moniteur: 158-67.

Schneider, T., Kossak, F. and A. Atlee (2000). Study of the consequences of the single detached house. Citta’ Terzo millennio : International Competition of Ideas. Venezia, Marsilio Editori: 348-351.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Schneider, T. and J. Till (2009). “Beyond Discourse. Notes on Spatial Agency.” Footprint (4): 97-111.

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. 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. Till, J. and N. Awan (2010). ”Instances of ecological motivations in the production and use of space.” field: 4 (1): 219-226.
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).