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Dr. Paul Wilson is a researcher, typographer and writer whose work explores the intersections of language, landscape, community and communication. His current research involves the production of designed narratives of community and place and, in particular, investigates the potential for critically-engaged typographies and language-acts, focusing on sites of class experience and situated knowledge at moments or points of change or transition.

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Much of his work orbits ideas and ideals of utopianism found in manifestations of the utopian action, and has resulted in a broad range of activities: surveying the noticeboards found in the interior landscapes of Working Men’s Clubs; mapping the route of the march which marked the closure of Britain’s last deep coal mine; exploring the post-Brexit significance of the first Esperanto-English dictionary held in Keighley Library, West Yorkshire.

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He is a Lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Leeds. 

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I’m interested in language presented or identifiable in material form, and in making use of words that can create and maintain association and / or community, together with a sense of the everyday or of superficially mundane words and their contexts. Often, it’s an idea of community which underpins the circulation and preservation of these activities.

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I’m also keen on practices of translation and processes that can be applied linguistically and visually or typographically, and through which those words that are found or previously identified might be subject.

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