Intellect

John Wood is Professor of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before that he was Deputy Head of Fine Art. He has launched several unique and innovative design degrees, including the BA (Hons) Design and the MA in Design Futures. He was co-founder of the ‘Attainable Utopias’ network (http://attainable-utopias.org), and has published over a hundred articles and papers about aspects of environmental damage, consumption and design. 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. One outcome was the ‘IDEAbase’ authoring software application that was completed in 1994. His first book The Virtual Embodied was published (Routledge) in 1998, and his second, Designing for Micro-Utopias was published 2007 by Ashgate/Gower. He is Principal Investigator of an EPSRC and AHRC-funded study into new ways to benchmark synergy levels within ultra-complex systems.

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