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Rob van Kranenburg
Rob van Kranenburg (1964) graduated cum laude in Literary Theory at
Tilburg University (Nl). He went to work with Prof Ronald Soetaert in
Ghent, in the Educational Department, developing online learning
modules, methods and concepts drawing on the idea of multiliteracies.
In 2000 he went to Amsterdam to work as programmer on media education
at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and as
teacher-coordinator of the new media program in the Film and
Television Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Feeling
it was to young a field to predominantly historize it, he moved to
Doors of Perception and co-programmed with John Thackara Doors 7,
Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing. In 2003 he
mentored a postgraduate course in performance, theatre and the arts
at APT, Arts Performance Theatricality. For the past two years he has
been working part time at Virtual Platform, Dutch policy and network
organization for e-culture, as interim and now as co-director. One
day is for teaching (mostly at Arts and Design Academies). As
innovation consultant he is mainly involved with negociability
strategies of new technologies, predominantly ubicomp and rfid (radio
frequency identification), the relationship between the formal and
informal in cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a
sustainable cultural economy.