
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/Report › Commissioned 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 journal › Article › peer-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 journal › Article › peer-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. 99-116Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-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 journal › Article › peer-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 journal › Article › peer-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 journal › Article › peer-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 journal › Article › peer-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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review