University of Wales Institute Cardiff
Faculty Member, Cardiff School of Art and Design
Deputy Dean / Director of Teaching and Learning
About
Stephen Thompson PhD MA(rca) BaHons FRSA
Stephen is an industrial and interaction designer, design philosopher and the Deputy Dean / Director of Learning and Teaching of Cardiff School of Art & Design : UWIC.
Stephen established his career working for a number of design consultancies in Britain and Germany before establishing his own design practice and eventually moving into a career as an academic. Stephen's research and teaching extend many of the experimental ideas he has brought to design. He has been on the leading edge of design thinking from his time at the Royal College of Art and is widely recognised in his field as a far-sighted, provocative and sometimes controversial thinker who maintains a continual challenge to how designers might understand the technological future we will share.
Stephen is the co-convenor of MeAT Research, a design research group based in Cardiff School of Art & Design, lead by a philosophical discourse centred about embodied interaction. MeAT is particularly interested in the theoretical anticipation and design and implementation of new human experiences which are as real, and as integrative, as those which we take to be a natural evolutionary inheritance. Stephen works in collaboration with the Transtechnology Research Network at the University of Plymouth.
Contact Information
http://www.meatresearch.co.uk/
