Conferences, workshops and seminars :
Workshop : Building Bridges. International collaboration between FLUX Atelier (MSA), Chemnitz City of Culture, Bauhaus University Weimar, Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeburg, Saarland University of Applied Sciences, Kuma Lab (University of Tokyo) exploring connections between people and cultures expressed through spatial design, part of the European Capital of Chemnitz programme, June 2025.
Conference paper: Fields of play as instruments for cohesion in the social spaces of diverse societies. Learnings/Un-Learnings: Environmental pedagogies, play, policies and spatial design, Stockholm, September 2024.
Urban Laboratory: Instruments of Play. Workshop exploring use of play for social cohesion in collaboration with FLUX Atelier, City of Chemnitz and Chemnitz Capital of Culture, funded by U+I_Landsec PLC, June 2024.
Seminar: Play and the spatial knowledge of young people. Co-presented research with Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Technische Universität, Berlin, January 2024.
Conference Paper: Temporal practices and their role in promoting social cohesion in the face of change. Cities and Regions in Social Change: Spatial patterns, causes and consequences of fragmentation and social cohesion, Urban and Regional Sociology Section, German Sociological Association (DGS), Bauhaus University, Weimar, October 2023.
Conference paper: Beyond the finished article. On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach, Glasgow School of Art and Uniarts Helsinki, Glasgow, June 2023.
Publications:
Wood (2025) “Fields of Play as Instruments for Cohesion in the Social Spaces of Diverse Societies”. Urgent Pedagogies, 22 April 2025