Matt Ward is Professor of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London where he has held leadership positions for 20 years. His practice engages in a wide range of topics from speculative design to radical pedagogy. He was founding member of DWFE; a post-disciplinary, semi-fictional design syndicate. More recently his work ‘The Illegal Town Plan’, with Jimmy Loizeau, explores inclusive strategies for local engagement and education through critical, spatial speculation. The project provides a platform to mediate community engagement with local government in the re-imagining of coastal futures.

He has held numerous External Examiner roles across the UK: Industrial Design at Central St Martins, Design Products at the RCA and Graphic Media Design at UAL. He was one of the principles investigators for Speculative Edu; a two-year project that aimed to strengthen speculative design education by collecting and exchanging existing knowledge and experiences whilst developing new methods.

Matt holds international patents on the work he did at NCR’s Advanced Research Lab on the emerging contexts of the Internet of Things and Urban Computing. He has been a research affiliate to MIT Media Lab and Interaction Design at The RCA and has consulted for a range of organisations; Google, BBC and the Design Council. He lectures internationally about design, technology and education.

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