John Wood, DipAD, ADF(Manc), FRSA (b. 25 August 1945) is Emeritus Professor of

Design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

Goldsmiths College, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

. He taught many Young British Artists when he was Deputy Head of the Fine Art Department at Goldsmiths between 1978 and 1988. He has received AHRC and

EPSRC The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to univers ...

funding for research into

metadesign Metadesign (or meta-design) is an emerging conceptual framework aimed at defining and creating social, economic and technical infrastructures in which new forms of collaborative design can take place. It consists of a series of practical design-r ...

Biography

Born in Bath, Wood attended

Harrow County School for Boys Harrow may refer to: Places * Harrow, Victoria, Australia * Harrow, Ontario, Canada * The Harrow, County Wexford, a village in Ireland * London Borough of Harrow, England ** Harrow, London, a town in London ** Harrow (UK Parliament constituency ...

, and then studied

Fine Art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

Manchester School of Art Manchester School of Art in Manchester, England, was established in 1838 as the Manchester School of Design. It is the second oldest art school in the United Kingdom after the Royal College of Art which was founded the year before. It is now par ...

. Examples of his early works include: 'King of Shouting House' (1969) - a computer assisted play, for the ICA; 'Tune Doodler' (1972) - mass-produced electronic sculpture commissioned by

Jasia Reichardt Jasia Reichardt (born 1933) is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark ''Cybernetic Serendipity'' exhibition at London's ...

. He also created "solar energy artworks" - 'Black Box' - control circuit regulated a practical solar roof at Eithen-y-Gaeir, North Wales (1974) and Sunsharer' window maximized solar energy for domestic use without compromising plant needs (1975). Wood is an original member of the rock band

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where he performs as Max Ripple, he was also an original member of the Kreutzer Quintet.

Publications

*''Designing for Micro-utopias'' (2007); Thinking beyond the Possible, Ashgate, UK, ; *''The Virtual Embodied; presence, practice, technology'' (1998), (Ed.) *The Culture of Academic Rigour: Does Design Research Really Need It? and he is also a contributor to ''Sublime Magazine''.

References

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