- Jamming the Stupid Machine Ward, Matt ORCID logo
- Rethinking Drinking: A Proposal For a New English Pint Beer Glass Hall, Sean ; and Ward, Matt . 2010. Rethinking Drinking: A Proposal For a New English Pint Beer Glass. Things, pp. 46-49. ISSN 1356-921X
- Designing a Critical Utopia: Facts, Futures and Fictions Ward, Matt . 2006. Designing a Critical Utopia: Facts, Futures and Fictions. Scroope: Cambridge Architectural Journal, 18, pp. 44-53. ISSN 09661026
Professor Matt Ward
Matt’s research spans a wide range of interests from speculative design to radical pedagogy
Staff details
Matt is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Department.
His research spans a wide range of interests from speculative design to radical pedagogy. He’s a practicing designer, writer and founding member of DWFE; a post-disciplinary, semi-fictional design syndicate. DWFE’s work searches for meaning in the construction of the extraordinary; they design activities, objects and incidents to reconfigure people’s perceptions.
Matt holds three international patents on the work he did at NCR’s Advanced Research and Development Department on the emerging contexts of the Internet of Things and Urban Computing. Matt has been a research affiliate to MIT Media Lab and Interaction Design at The RCA. He consults for a range of organisations; Nokia, BERG, Dentsu and the Design Council. He lectures internationally about design, technology and education, writes a blog and takes a lot of photographs.
Publications and research outputs
Design
- Putting the Rock back in Rhyl Loizeau, Jimmy ; and Ward, Matt . 2015. Putting the Rock back in Rhyl.
Show/Exhibition
- Disco School: Reimagining the future of Murska Sobota Ward, Matt ; Loizeau, Jimmy ; Božanić, Sara; and Ružič, Mihaela. 2021. Disco School: Reimagining the future of Murska Sobota. In: "Disco School: Reimagining the future of Murska Sobota", Institute for Transmedia Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Disko School: Firminy Ward, Matt ; Loizeau, Jimmy ; Božanić, Sara; and Ružič, Mihaela. 2021. Disko School: Firminy. In: "My neighbourhood, my city", Cite le Corbusier, The Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France, 15 - 24 October 2021.
- Disco School: Murska Sobota Castle - MIKK Loizeau, Jimmy ; and Ward, Matt . 2021. Disco School: Murska Sobota Castle - MIKK. In: "Disco school: Reimagining the future of Murska Sobota", Park Theatre (Gledališče Park)/MIKK Gallery, Murska Sobota, Slovenia, 11 - 22 September 2021.
Conference or Workshop Item
- Role of Creative Practice in Heritage Process: Speculative Pasts from Certain Futures. Past, Present and Future, Which Comes First? Ward, Matt ORCID logo
- Bedtime Stories and Social Dreaming; new myths for a different tomorrow Ward, Matt ; and Thorne, Morgan JL. 2019. 'Bedtime Stories and Social Dreaming; new myths for a different tomorrow'. In: HyperWerk: How can we live together. Institute HyperWerk of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland 9-10 November 2019.
- Sitspec: rewriting alternative futures Ward, Matt ; Loizeau, Jimmy ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Auger, James. 2019. 'Sitspec: rewriting alternative futures'. In: Future Friends Conference. Maribor, Slovenia 14 - 18 April 2019.
Article
- Putting the Illegal into heritage practice Sully, DeanORCID logo; Ward, Matt ORCID logo
- The Illegal Town Plan: Anecdotal Speculation for Coastal Futures Ward, Matt ; and Loizeau, Jimmy . 2020. The Illegal Town Plan: Anecdotal Speculation for Coastal Futures. Temes de Disseny(36), pp. 90-113. ISSN 2604-9155
- Mother Futures Ward, Matt ORCID logo
Audio
- Vö Fajna! Loizeau, Jimmy ; and Ward, Matt . 2021. Vö Fajna!.
- ZTOPIA Feb 28- Colonizing Machine Learning, Feet Fetishes and Only GANs w/ Nick Foster and Matt Ward Ward, Matt ; and Foster, Nick. 2021. ZTOPIA Feb 28- Colonizing Machine Learning, Feet Fetishes and Only GANs w/ Nick Foster and Matt Ward.
- Keeping it Rhyl: Punk-Plan Loizeau, Jimmy ; and Ward, Matt . 2020. Keeping it Rhyl: Punk-Plan.
Book Section
- A New Type of Design Education; Models, Materials and Futures Ward, Matt . 2022. A New Type of Design Education; Models, Materials and Futures. In: Gem Barton, ed. Experimental Realism: (design) fictions and futures. London: RIBA.
- The life and death of Critical and Speculative Design; Post-Disciplinarity, Post-Truth, Post-Self and Post-Capital Ward, Matt ORCID logo
- A Practice of Hope, A Method of Action Ward, Matt ORCID logo
Film/Video
- Welcome to Rhyl Ward, Matt ; and Loizeau, Jimmy . 2019. Welcome to Rhyl.
Project
- Disco School: The Illegal Future Machine Ward, Matt ; Loizeau, Jimmy ; Ružič, Mihaela; and Božanić, Sara. 2019 - 2021 Disco School: The Illegal Future Machine.
- The Illegal Town Plan Ward, Matt ; and Loizeau, Jimmy . 2015 - 2021 The Illegal Town Plan.
Report
- RIFD: Frequency, standards, adoption and innovation Ward, Matt ; and van Kranenberg, R.. 2006. RIFD: Frequency, standards, adoption and innovation. Technical Report. JISC, UK.
Other
- European Patent EP 1085432 B1 Information retrieval and display NCR Limited 2008. European Patent EP 1085432 B1 Information retrieval and display. .
- Access to information networks M. Waller and M. Ward 2006. Access to information networks. EP1267544.
- Method of interfacing with virtual objects on a map including items with machine-readable tags M. Waller and M. Ward 2004. Method of interfacing with virtual objects on a map including items with machine-readable tags. 6690402.