Norway, Europe // Certified in 2024

Matt Nock is a researcher, facilitator, and educator with experience co-creating and sharing stories through audio and video production. His work often centers on the ordinary experiences of people in the midst of extraordinary socioecological changes. Matt’s transdisciplinary doctoral research explored the ways that creative tools and embodiment practices are used by artists, scientists, and educators to advance cognitive justice in their lives and work.

Currently he is working as a thought partner and storyteller to advance Arizona State University’s newest design aspiration, Practice Principled Innovation. Other projects include developing Liz Lerman’s Atlas of Creative Tools and Critical Response Process, for which he is a certified facilitator.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Ph.D. in Sustainability from the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University. He lives in Tromsø, Norway where the climate is decidedly unusual if you’re not used to the arctic.