Professor John Chris Jones

born, 1927, Aberystwyth
educated in engineering and sculpture

1950-51
at the Council of Industrial Design, Festival of Britain

1951-60
industrial design and ergonomics in the electrical industry

1961-70
organising a postgraduate course in design technology at Manchester University

1971-74
professor of design at the Open University, UK

1975-present
independent writing, lecturing and web art

author of:

design methods, 1970/80/92
essays in design, 1984
technology changes, 1984
designing designing (enlarged version of essays in design), 1991
notes and plays, 1998
after Giraldus, 2000
the internet and everyone, 2000

websites:

Softopia includes a reference to creative democracy
it also includes 'digital diary' (an early weblog), 1999-present

these events are abstracted from a collective cv
in which are the names and actions of about 150 people without whom
these activities could not have happened!

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