who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Natalie Woolf
Keywords design modes, organic
framework, intuition, thesis writing
Martin Woolley
Coventry University, Coventry
School of Art and Design, Priory
Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, United
Kingdom
Keywords sustainability, product
semantics, user research, craft,
product semantics, design
› Crossing boundaries: A partnership of craft, industry and science through
practice-led research into the patination of pewter, Craft Research, 1.1, 133-
143.
Natalie Woolf grew up in Buckinghamshire where she began
professional training in the arts at the age of sixteen on the BTEC
industry-approved Art and Design education programme at Amersham
EF, FE college. She moved on to specialize in painting at Leeds
Polytechnic (now Leeds Metropolitan University) and after graduating,
remained in Yorkshire to continue painting and to set up her own
practice as a designer/maker specializing in flooring. Over the next
twelve years her company developed and moved into designs for vinyl
which were exhibited at 100% Design and internationally. In 1999, she
moved to London to undertake research at the RCA in order to explore
the more creative and conceptual aspects of design practice. Since
completing her Ph.D. in 2004, Natalie has been both working as an
artist consultant specializing in works in the public realm and
continuing her creative and research practice.
› Design research by practice: modes of writing in a recent Ph.D. from the
RCA, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 1.1, 53-68.
Martin Woolley's interests encompass sustainability, product
semantics, user research, the crafts, product semantics and designrelated
aspects of the innovation process. He moved into a research
project management role, initially as Director of the HEFCE/TLTP
funded 'demi' Project which established web-based learning and
teaching resources for UK design courses, and more recently he was
principal investigator on both the EU Framework 5 'AGORA Cities for
People' project and on the 'Emotional Wardrobe' Designing for the 21st
Century EPSRC/AHRC cluster project.
› Book Review, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 1.2, 191-193.
› Beyond control: Rethinking industry and craft dynamics, Craft Research,
2.1, 11-36.