{"id":899,"date":"2018-08-12T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T10:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=899"},"modified":"2018-08-12T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T10:12:45","slug":"ou-student-begins-a-phd-at-the-royal-college-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"OU student begins a PhD at the Royal College of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Johnson, who did his MA with us, has received funding to do his PhD at the Royal College of Art. He will be working on his dissertation, &#8216;Blind Aesthetics-Memory, Materiality and the Tactility of the Senses&#8217;. In the project he will test the idea that blindness can  provide radical new insights into our understanding of the world and that the plastic arts can be a powerful way for blind people to express these insights. David is himself blind.<\/p>\n<p>Many congratulations to David!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Johnson, who did his MA with us, has received funding to do his PhD at the Royal College of Art. He will be working on his dissertation, &#8216;Blind Aesthetics-Memory, Materiality and the Tactility of the Senses&#8217;. In the project he will test the idea that blindness can provide radical new insights into our understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}