- Jamming the Stupid Machine Ward, Matt. 2017. Jamming the Stupid Machine. Disegno(17), pp. 113-128. ISSN 2048-7770
- 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; Loizeau, Jimmy and Sully, Dean. 2021. 'Role of Creative Practice in Heritage Process: Speculative Pasts from Certain Futures. Past, Present and Future, Which Comes First?'. In: Critical Heritage Practice: Preferred Futures, Uncertain Presents and Speculative Pasts. The Max Planck Institute for the Advancement of Science, Germany 9 September 2021.
- 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, Dean; Ward, Matt and Loizeau, Jimmy. 2023. Putting the Illegal into heritage practice. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 29(12), pp. 1374-1390. ISSN 1352-7258
- 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. 2020. Mother Futures. Walker Reader: The Gradient: Memories from the Year 2030,
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. 2022. The life and death of Critical and Speculative Design; Post-Disciplinarity, Post-Truth, Post-Self and Post-Capital. In: Claudia Mareis; Moritz Greiner-Petter and Michael Renner, eds. Critical by Design? Genealogies, Practices, Positions. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, pp. 288-305. ISBN 9783837661040
- A Practice of Hope, A Method of Action Ward, Matt. 2021. A Practice of Hope, A Method of Action. In: Ivica Mitrović; James Auger; Julian Hanna and Ingi Helgason, eds. Beyond Speculative Design: Past - present - future. Split: SpeculativeEdu; Arts Academy, University of Split, pp. 166-200. ISBN 9789536617562
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.