who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Malaika Sarco- Thomas
Keywords ecology, improvisation,
dance,performance, community
perception
Stephen Thompson
Cardiff School of Art & Design,
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff,
CF24 0SP, United Kingdom
Keywords future practice, design
philosophy, holism, concept design,
speculative materialism
Linda J. Thomson
University College London, Room
G2, UCL Wolfson House, 4
Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HE,
United Kingdom
Keywords vision, health, well-being,
biopsychology, memory
Malaika Sarco-Thomas is a lecturer in choreography at Dartington
Campus of University College Falmouth. She is a dance artist whose
research spans dance improvisation, ecological philosophy, site-based
performance, tree-climbing, guerilla tree-planting and community
practice. Malaika studied dance, theatre, biology and improvisation at
the North Carolina School of the Arts, Hollins University, Kyoto Art
Centre, Dartington College of Arts and PARTS in Brussels and was
awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Fellowship in support of her
postgraduate research. She is currently completing her Ph.D. thesis,
Twig Dances: Improvisation Performance as Ecological Practice.
› Improvising in Ruyang: Community Art as Ecological Practice, Journal of
Arts & Communities, 1.1, 45-68.
Stephen Thompson Ph.D. MA(rca) BA(Hons) FRSA is a co-convenor
and lead researcher of the MeAT Design Research Group at Cardiff
School of Art & Design andthe Transtechnology Research Group in the
University of Plymouth. Dr. Thompson is a design philosopher and an
industrial and interaction designer, and Head of the Department of
Creative Communication, Cardiff School of Art & Design, University
of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
› Joey: a design scenario for an ordinary life in the future, Technoetic Arts: A
Journal of Speculative Research, 7.1, 13-29.
Linda Thomson is Research Associate on the ‘Heritage in Hospitals’
programme at University College London, and a psychologist and
lecturer specializing in research methods, biopsychology, memory and
learning. Her research interests include the roles of vision and touch in
enhancing health and well-being.
› Evaluating the therapeutic effects of museum object handling with hospital
patients: A review and initial trial of well-being measures, Journal of Applied
Arts & Health, 2.1, 37-56.
Will Thorne Will Thorne completed a degree at the Mackintosh in Glasgow, and
then worked in practice on a variety of projects from a public arts and a