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Proposing Linda ScottDear Lucy and Rafael, Thanks so much for proposing Linda. I am happy to second. She sounds perfect for our community. I applaud her background and look forward to hearing her voice among us. Regards, John Creative Leaps International ----- Original Message ----- From: Lucy Kimbell To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:19 AM Subject: Proposing Linda Scott Dear Aacorners Rafael Ramirez and I would like to propose our colleague Linda Scott who has recently joined the faculty of Saïd Business School where she is in the marketing, culture and society group. Linda's research and teaching has several overlaps with the arts. First, her research stream proposing a rhetorical theory of advertising is based in literary theory, but has been extended into music-as-rhetoric and images-as-rhetoric, with considerable impact in the marketing and advertising literature. Most recently, she has been working on a theory that suggests images in postindustrial culture are an emergent form of writing, available to express anything that might be accomplished with alphabetic writing, including commercial persuasion. In her other research and teaching stream, Linda works with the aesthetic and creative impulses that often propel consumer behavior, including a notion of 'material poetics' that describes the practices and judgements that cause objects to be put together (e. g. home décor, dress) in fresh and pleasing ways. Scott's training is almost entirely in arts theory (literature, visual art, music, drama) and in her previous job at the University of Illinois, she had joint appointments in art, advertising, women's studies, and communications research. Lk Lucy Kimbell Clark Fellow in Design Leadership Saïd Business School University of Oxford Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HP Design leads us where exactly? http://www.designleadership.blogspot.com/