Brian Glenney is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Norwich University in Vermont, USA. He works in both the fields of philosophy of perception and spatial justice. He is the co-editor of two volumes in Routledge’s Rewriting the History of Philosophy Book Series: Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy  and The Senses and the History of Philosophy. His current work project entitled A Pluralist’s Guide to Solving Molyneux’s Problem is under contract with Routledge. His academic scholarship in philosophy of perception also appears in journals such as Biology and Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Adam Smith Review, Journal for the Study of the New Testament,  among other peer-reviewed journals. He has also written several peer-review articles on spatial justice and skateboarding, appearing in journals such as Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Leisure Studies, and Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy. He has also written some popular essays on skateboarding and graffiti subculture for the Huffington Post, Clout, and Thrasher Magazine. His current projects concern environmental issues in skateboarding and verious non-visual modalities in skateboarding. He has also won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.  This work in defamiliarizing art, extreme mobility, and advocacy coalesced into co-founding the Accessible Icon Project, a movement to transform the International Symbol of Access (the wheelchair symbol) into an active, engaged image. The Accessible Icon is now adopted by numerous states like New York and Connecticut, and cities worldwide and is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Smithsonian Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California, an M.Litt. in Philosophy from St. Andrews University in Scotland, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Washington.

The Skate, Create, Educate and Regenerate (SkateCER) project is led by Dr Indigo Willing - skateboarder, sociologist and SSSHARC Fellow www.skatecreateeducateandregenerate.com and The City Canvas Symposium is held in collaboration with the Art/Play/Risk www.artplayrisk.com team Dr Sanné Mestrom - Public artist and DECRA and Nadia Odlum, PhD candidate and artist at the University of Sydney. Additional co-investigator/collaborator A/Prof. Lian Loke.

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