1. Colin Ward was a British anarchist writer and editor.
10 Facts About Colin Ward
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Colin Ward attended Ilford County High School, leaving school aged 15.
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In 1942, aged 18, Colin Ward was conscripted into the army as a sapper, going on to work as a draughtsman in the Royal Engineers.
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Colin Ward was the founder and editor of the monthly anarchist journal Anarchy from 1961 to 1970.
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Colin Ward published widely on education, architecture and town planning.
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From 1995 to 1996, Colin Ward was Centennial Professor of Housing and Social Policy at the London School of Economics.
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In 2001, Colin Ward was made an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University.
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Colin Ward's philosophy aimed at removing authoritarian forms of social organisation and replacing them with self-managed, non-hierarchical forms.
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Anarchism for Colin Ward is "a description of a mode of human organization, rooted in the experience of everyday life, which operates side by side with, and in spite of, the dominant authoritarian trends of our society".
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Colin Ward argued that through play, appropriation and imagination, children can counter adult-based intentions and interpretations of the built environment.