Senior researcher, Delft University of Technology:
Together with colleagues we develop the concept of participatory
systems. The group is chaired by professor Frances Brazier. My focus is
on how material and immaterial infrastructures have to be designed for
the human capacity to accept responsibility. Therefore I focus on human
experience with being and bearing witness in complex systems
environments. My research interests are theory on the network society,
artistic research and meta design.
European Institute for Technology: ICT Labs: Mediating Presence: With Charlie Gullstrom we orchestrate the EIT ICT Labs research program 'Mediating presence'. Here we collaborate between Delft Univerity of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Lulea University in Sweden. We further develop the collaborative research platform www.being-here.net and we organize 4 workshops in 2012. The program can be found at www.being-here.net
Conference on the Future of Human Rights: Together with my promotor, professor Cees Hamelink we organzie a conference on the Future of Human Rights at the Unversity of Amsterdam, 12-14 september 2012
Supervision PhD candidates (with Frances Brazier):
Karen Lancel on 'public private spaces'
Likpika Bansal on 'using technology for empowering young women in India'
Angelo Vermeulen on 'integrating social technical and biological systems for space ecologies'
Luis Enrique Bohorquez Montemayor on 'mutual awareness'
Member of the Dutch Council for Culture:
www.cultuur.nl
Dutch law demands that the Secretary for Culture is advised by the independent Council for Culture. The Council for Culture consists of 9 'generalists' of which I am one. We are advised by specific commissions that consist of specialists in specific fields of the arts and culture.
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation for Democracy and Media:
www.stdem.org
The Foundation for Democracy and Media provides financial support to institutions, individuals and organizations, domestic and foreign, whose efforts or projects support the promotion of constant readiness to adapt and rejuvenate democracy, wherever the necessity to do so is apparent.