who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

David Wood
Vanderbilt University, Department of
Philosophy
Keywords Yucatan, mirror, Robert
Smithson, art
John Wood
Goldsmiths University, Lewisham,
New Cross, London, SE14 6NW,
United Kingdom
Keywords four-fold logic, relational
(nature of design), writing,
tetrahedronauspicious reasoning,
design-thinking
David Wood is Centennial Professor of Philosophy and Joe B. Wyatt
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His
interests lie in the possibilities of reading and thinking opened up by
contemporary continental philosophy and by nineteenth century
German thought. Current philosophical projects include:
reworking/displacing Heidegger's treatment of time within fundamental
ontology; developing a nonprescriptive posthumanistic approach to
ethics; providing an account of truth that does justice both to its
normative, ‘existential’ and metaphysical dimensions; various different
approaches to the philosophy of nature (environmental philosophy,
animals rights, thinking boundaries etc.). He also runs a series of
philosophy talks at the Nashville Downtown Public Library. David
Wood is also an environmental artist and stages Art Events from time
to time.
› Mirror Infractions in the Yucatan, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 9.1, 69-86.
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
› The tetrahedron can encourage designers to formalize more responsible
strategies, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 3.3, 175-192.
› Reviews, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 7.2, 121-128.
› Editorial – The ethical purpose of writing in creative practice, Journal of
Writing in Creative Practice, 1.1, 5-12.
› Editorial, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 1.2, 113-116.
› Editorial, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 1.3, 201-204.
› Auspicious Reasoning: Can metadesign become a mode of governance?,
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 1.3, 301-316.