One-day workshop with Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink will be guest of the Faculty for the "AD-fakultetet inn i framtiden" event on Thursday. He has offered to give a one-day workshop for KIT students on Wednesday, starting at 10am. The second part of his workshop starting after a lunch break will be part of the course "Framed, unframed".

Geert Lovink (born 1959, Amsterdam) is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures,[1] whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue.[2] As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web. Lovink is a Research Professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and a Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School. From 2004-2013 he was an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).Lovink earned his master's degree in political science at the University of Amsterdam, holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland.