curriculum vitæ
lectures, presentations, panels

2016

Open Set, Seoul Workshop
Introduction lecture, moderation
Seoul, South Korea, February 15th – 19th

Lecture: “Visual language for ethical design”
ZHdK “Fragestunde”, Zürich, April 5th

2014

Moderation debate “Design Diffusers”
Graphic Design Festival conference,
Chaumont, France, May 27th

2013

Lecture “Design & Research”
Graphic Design Festival conference,
Chaumont, France, June 1st

Lecture Design Criticism
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, November 29th

2011

Presentation Visual Essay “Graphic Designers are Editors”, with Thonik
Graphic Design Worlds exhibition
Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy, February 25th

Book presentation and debate “Useless”, EXD’11
ExperimentaDesign Biennale, Lisbon, Portugal, September 28th

2010

Lecture & discussion on independent magazines
OK Festival, Arnhem
Sonsbeek, March 16th

Lecture Form = Function
Dutch DFA, "Critical Attitude" conference
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 29th

2009

Culture Catalysts [lecture]
GDC'09 Shenzhen, China,
October 24th

Workshop Editorial Design
Calarts, Los Angeles, California,
November 3rd – 6th

2008

The freedom of the designer [moderator]
presentations and debates
with (a.o.) Stefan Sagmeister, Chaz Maviyane Davies, Max Kisman, Lies Ros
-University of Amsterdam, May 23rd

2007

Culture Catalysts [lecture]
-March 29th, Académie des Beaux Arts, Valence, FR
-April 26th, School of Design, George Brown University, Toronto, CA
-May 29th, Kunsthochschule Karlsruhe, Germany
-September 14th, Università di San Marino

critique
Workshop 99 Months
-November 16th, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy

2006

Pierre Bernard & Reza Abedini [introduction, conversation]
-December 10th, Studio Anthon Beeke, Amsterdam

Synergy between art and design [lecture]
-November 21st, St. Lucas Academy, Antwerpen, BE

Publieke Cultuur [debat]
-September 3rd, De Balie, Amsterdam

2005

Culture Catalysts [lecture]
-November 18th, ISAD, Porto, Portugal
-November 28th, Brumen, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Culture Catalysts [panel, host]
Open Talks, ExperimentaDesign Biennale, Lisbon
-Sept. 15th
with: Jonathan Barnbrook, Garth Walker, Erik Adigard,
Petra Schmidt, Étienne Hervy

City Bytes [workshop]
Cumulus design education conference, IADE, Lisbon
with Erik Adigard
-May 23rd / 27th

2004

"Language = Visual" [lecture]
AIGA Symposium 'Double Dutch',
-San Francisco, Los Angeles, July 20, 21

"Design and the Market" [debate]
-10 years Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, June 19

"High Vernacular" [lecture]
-Symposium 'The Midas Touch', Haus der Kunst, München, May 21

"Crossing Borders of Understanding" [lecture]
-ICOGRADA designweek, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 29

Symposium Kunst in de Openbare Ruimte [moderation],
-Project Vivaldi, Zuidas Amsterdam, April 21

2003

"Visual Power Show" [presentation, with Joes Koppers]
-Paradiso, Amsterdam, October 1

"Cultural Agency" [lecture]
-Experimentadesign Biennale, Lissbon, September 20

"Flag vs. Banner" [presentation, moderation]
-NAI, Rotterdam, September 4

"Deep Sites" [presentation]
book presentation 'Deep Sites',
-Waag, Amsterdam, April 17
-Artazart, Paris, May 15

2002

Kunst. Openbaar. Ruimte. [lecture]
'Public Interference' symposium
-SKOR / NAI, november 2002

"Experience Design" [lecture, panel]
-BNO meeting, Amsterdam, August 29

"Culture Jamming" [moderator]
'Critical Design Discourses' series of debates
-De Balie, Amsterdam, June 13

Festival de l'affiche [panel]
-Chaumont, France, May 2

"Media Massage" [lecture, organization]
ArtEZ Digital Atelier congress
-Zwolle, Netherlands, April 19 / 20

"FestiVital"
Workshop and lecture at Vital design academy
-Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2 / 10

2001

"Design as Critique" [moderator]
'Critical Design Discourses' series of debates
-De Balie, Amsterdam, December 6

"The Creative Meme" [panel]
'Strange & Charmed'  series of debates
-Royal College of Art, London, November 14

Designers are Authors [lecture]
-ICOGRADA congress, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 14

Experimenta Design Conference, Lissabon, Portugal, September 18

First Things First [lecture]
-VISUELT congress, Oslo, Norway, April 27

Visual essays - reading and writing graphic design [lecture]
-Cranbrook Academy, MI, USA, 28 February

2000

Invloedszone / zone d'influence
2nd International Graphic Design Biennial, Quebec [host, moderator]
-Montreal, 18 / 22 October

First Things First 2000 [panel]
with Jay Chiat, Milton Glazer, Marlene McCarty, Naomi Klein, Kevin Lyons. Moderator: Andrea Codrington
-AIGA New York, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, April 5

1999

Design Beyond Design [panel]
with Jan van Toorn, Mieke Geritzen, Ole Bouwman, related to  presentation of Van Toorn's Design beyond design book.
-De Balie, Amsterdam

Idealism Sample Show [presentation]
short presentations by designers and others representing their views on idealism, related to publication of The World Must Change book
-De Balie, Amsterdam

Culture Wars [panel]
three-day congress of panel debates on 'Culture: dumbing down or wising up'. The 'grid locked' panel focussed on connecting new media design to audiences: testing or trusting?
-Congress, London

Typo'99 [lecture]
typographic conference themed 'image - text'. My address urged typographers to learn to love the web, in spite of coarse resolution
-Conference, Berlin

Onedotzero Festival [interview FUEL]
presentations of new work by video artists and designers on experimental digital video
-Festival, London

2nd International Browser day [panel]
new proposals for browsing the web, new attitudes to navigating infospace
-Conference, De Balie, Amsterdam 

1998

Authoring for Digital and Traditional Media [lecture]
in digital media designers become co-authors and editors
-EMMA conference, Merz Academie, Stuttgart

CalArts graduate design program [lecture + crits]
design related to the information deluge
-Los Angeles

Digital Dialogues [idem]
-Art Centre College of Design, Pasadena

ATypI'98 [lecture]
the screen as typographically needy medium for reading
-conference, Lyon

New Dutch Design
-AIGA Washington & Baltimore Art School [lecture]

School of Visual Arts [lecture]
in conversation with Steve Heller, on editing Eye
-MFA Design, New York

Editorial Media [lecture, panel]
editorial aspects of multimedia
-Athens Film & Multimedia Festival

The Reader's Terms [presentation]
the virtues of print
-Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht

3 Decades of Dutch Posters [lecture]
-Groninger Museum

1996

Object versus Pixels [panel moderator]
-two day conference on new relations between art and technology

1995/96

Voorbij het object [moderator]
-series of 6 public debates on current developments in design.
(ITEMS, Rotterdamse Kunst Stichting & zaal De Unie, Rotterdam)

1993/94

Official Anarchy
lectures on Dutch graphic design.
-Arnhem (HKA),
-Tokyo (GGG),
-New York (AIGA)
(Netherlands Design Institute)