John Wood

John Wood is Professor of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before that he was Deputy Head of Fine Art. He wrote and launched several innovative design degrees, including the BA(Hons) Design and the MA in Design Futures. Wood has published over a hundred articles and papers about aspects of environmental damage, consumption and design. These include The Virtual Embodied (Routledge, 1998), and Designing for Micro-Utopias (Gower, 2007). An important aspect of his (re)search was driven by the need to enable designers to think more innovatively and responsibly about the implications of their practice. He was co-founder of the ‘Attainable Utopias’ network, and the ‘Writing-PAD’ (i.e. Writing Purposefully in Art and Design) Network, which currently has over forty member universities in Europe. Wood is co-editor (with Julia Lockheart) of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect Books). He is also Principal Investigator of an EPSRC and AHRC-funded study into new ways to benchmark synergy levels within ultra-complex systems, using methods of metadesign.

Forthcoming and recent courses at Schumacher College

March 9 – 27, 2009: Systems Thinking in Practice - course details

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