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Dr Martyn Woodward

Deputy Dean (Director of Learning and Teaching)
Cardiff School of Art & Design

Overview

Martyn is an interdisciplinary researcher, practitioner and academic working within interdisciplinary learning and teaching and research contexts. He has developed inter and transdisciplinary learning and teaching for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level study.

Martyn’s expertise lies within a design anthropological context drawing from phenomenology, film and media, ecological thought and new materialist / posthuman theory.

His current practice and research explore what the role of Art & Design may be in post-industrial 21st Century context. His thinking brings together Transition Design, inter-species ethnography, anthropology, dynamic systems theory and ecological philosophy to model potential ecological futures, practices and ways of being.

He is co-convener of the Metatechnicity Research Doctoral Community within Cardiff School of Art & Design

Research Publications

Engineering future generations

Woodward, M., 2024, Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Research output: Book/ReportCommissioned report

The happy accident: Post-anthropocentric understandings of serendipity in making processes

Ash, N., Thompson, S. & Woodward, M., 7 Mar 2023, In: Craft Research. 14, 1, p. 101-115 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

(Re)Considering Pedagogy – Entangled Ontology in a Complex Age: Abstraction Pedagogy and the Critical Pedagogical Importance of Art Education for Other Discipline Areas

Barritt, L. S., Thompson, S. & Woodward, M., 29 Nov 2021, In: International Journal of Art and Design Education.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A shift in systems: (co-)conceptualising pedagogy in an era of continuous complexity

Barritt, L. S., Popovac, M., Woodward, M. & Thompson, S., 17 Nov 2021, In: Buckingham Journal of Education. 2, 2, p. 99-116

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

The state of the fieldwork module in graphic design courses in Jordanian universities

Momani, S., Hussain, F., Woodward, M. & Counsell, J., 16 Oct 2020, In: International Journal of Design Education. 15, 1, p. 75-89 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

‘I’ve drawn, like, someone who was the world’: drawings as embodied gestures of lived yoga experience

Stewart, C., Woodward, M. & Gough, R., 25 Mar 2019, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 12, 1, p. 141-157 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Metaplasticity rendered visible in paint: How matter ‘matters’ in the lifeworld of Human action.

Woodward, M., 29 Dec 2017, In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 18, 1, p. 113-132 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A shifting sense of human scale: Tracing ‘deep time’ aspects of modern depiction

Woodward, M., 2 Jun 2016, In: Quaternary International. 405, p. 61-69 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A Monstrous Rhinoceros (as from Life): Toward (and beyond) an Epistemological Nature of the Enacted Pictorial Image

Woodward, M., 2013, Design Directions: The Relationship Between Humans and Technology . Tzvetanova Yung, S. & Piebalga, A. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 33-55 22 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

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