Stephen Thompson. PhD (Plym). MA(RCA). BA Hons. SFHEA. FRSA.

When designers and theorists try to characterise our species, our cognition, our planet, and our physics, is it not more productive to understand technology and the human body as nodes in a single widely distributed and emergent bio-technic ‘soma’? Based in Gloucestershire in the UK, Stephen is a critical designer, artist, speculative theorist and doctoral supervisor (nine completions). His research is best described as speculative and questioning, placing particular attention upon the relational nature of cognition and the material world. Deep histories and future trajectories of technology collide in speculative works that are both and neither, art nor design, technological and imaginary. “Why do we have a word for the stuff we call technology?

thompson (at) metatechnicity (dot) org