Dr Louis D'Arcy-Reed

Teaching

I teach on all modules as part of the Liberal Arts Foundation Year and act as module convener for Truth and Invention. In my sociology role, in Semester 1 I teach on Sociology of Everyday Life, Crime and Deviance in the Contemporary World, and, Exploring Society modules. Whilst in Semester 2, I will teach and convene Youth and Resistance, whilst teaching on Contemporary Issues in Law and Society and act as a dissertation supervisor to Year 3 undergraduates.

Research

My research spans social, political, and cultural theory specialising in the intersection of architectural and psychoanalytic inquiry, into the domain of spatial sociology. Using facets of contemporary culture, media, and filmic representations, I tend to present interrogations on social and political control, and the role of the built environment in the creation of cognitive and embodied urban fabrics - this can be the physical world we live in, or within the cultural artifacts we consume. I also continue to hold a strong interest in museology and contemporary art studies within my research.

My PhD thesis examined the role of cultural institutions, such as museums, in transforming the cultural identity of cities and communities through psychoanalytic analysis of place, space, and architecture. Within the thesis I used a mixed methodology to work para-architecturally, meaning the creation of artworks, prose, photography, and installations as a means to further interrogate themes and concepts within space. I try to use these methods throughout my research, seeking to reveal new perspectives.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles 

D’Arcy-Reed, L. (2021). Zero-Institution Culture in: AHRA Dundee 2019 (Title TBC), Abingdon,

Oxford, UK: Routledge. Book Chapter - August 2021

D’Arcy-Reed, L. (2021). Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Awry in: Narrating the City; Mediated

Cities, Bristol, UK: Intellect Publishing. Book Chapter - 4 January 2021

D’Arcy-Reed, L. (2020). Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics [Book review], Visual Studies

D’Arcy-Reed, L. (2019). Exposing the Unconscious through the Para-architectural Photo-Essay and

1. Prose. Architecture and Culture.
2. — Corridor8. [online] 7th August.

D’Arcy-Reed, L. (2019). Observing Parallaxical Identities of Place in Architecture – Adopting

Architectural and Psychoanalytical Approaches to Urban Fabrics. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 43(2), 166-173.

Manuscripts under review

D’Arcy-Reed, L. Parallax in n^th Space, (submitted to Architecture Research Quarterly)

Manuscripts in preparation

D’Arcy-Reed, L. Desert of the Real: Housing’s Uncanny, or Mummified, Spandrels of Space (pre-submission)

D’Arcy-Reed, L. 2020’s Window on Architectural Isolation and Psychological Distress (resubmission)

 Other publications

D’Arcy-Reed, L. (2019). Breaking New Ground in Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 91

D'Arcy-Reed, L. (2019). Collette Rayner: Tests on Previsualisation. Tests on Dredging. Tests on

D'Arcy-Reed, L. (2018). Sheffield Round-up — Corridor8. [online] Corridor8,  27th October.

D'Arcy-Reed, L. (2018). Leeds Degree Show Round-up — Corridor8. [online] Corridor8, 25th June. D'Arcy-Reed, L. (2018). Material Environments — Corridor8. [online] Corridor8, 17th May.

D'Arcy-Reed, L. (2017). Why Blade Runner 2049 is a Masterpiece of Modern Cinema —  Rogues

1. [online], 30th October.

Conference presentations

November 2019 

Zero-Institutionalist Architecture

Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference 2019

Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA)

Paper presented (to be published by Routledge in 2021)

University of Dundee

November 2018 

Parametricism to Foster Class Struggle

Alternatives to the Present. A Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development & Planning

Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS)

Paper presented

Kent University

Cleveland, OH

September 2018

The Missed Potential of the Contemporary Stoa

International Journal of Arts and Science Conference 2018

International Journal of Arts and Science (IJAS)

The British School in Rome

April 2018                    

Co-Production Using Psychoanalysis to Interrogate Architecture’s

Effects on Cities - Reshaping Identities and Working Para-architecturally,

PGR Research Symposium

Poster presentation regarding the role of psychoanalysis in analysis architecture

Derby University

April 2018

Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Awry

Moving Images – Static Spaces: Architectures, Art, Media, Film, Digital

Art & Design

Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS)

Paper presented (published by Intellect in 2020)

Altinbaş University, Istanbul

Selected Exhibition & Curatorial History

2018     Kintsugi, Bye Bye Bye, Zine contribution

2018     Fe/Male, AIR Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Altrincham, Manchester

2017     Hand In, Lime Street Gallery, Group Exhibition, Doubleyolk, Newcastle

2017     i must be missing the point [Artist and Curator], The Roper Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Bath Artists

Studios, Bath

2017     Hope in the Dark, 3rd on 3rd Gallery, Group Exhibition, Reg Lenna Center for the    

              Arts, Jamestown, NY

2016     Embrace the past, Forget the future, Online Group Exhibition, Isthisit?

2016     Where is your Humanity?, Group Exhibition, Studio 44ad, Bath

2013     The Map is Not The Territory, Fringe Arts Bath

2012     Doctoring Practice, Bath Spa University and Salisbury Arts Centre

2009     Graduate Fashion Week, Earl’s Court, London