about
Roel Roscam Abbing (1990, NL) a practice-based researcher in arts and design. He has a highly collaborative practice and is interested in sociotechnical systems, DIY/DIWO, self-organization and alternative technological trajectories. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Interaction Design at Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication (K3). There he researches alternative social media, on-line federation and community-owned digital infrastructure.
He holds an MA Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a Fine Arts BA (Hon) from the Willem De Kooning Academy. He has previously worked as a lecturer in Digital Media at the department of Graphic Design at Artez, Arnhem, as a lecturer in the Hacking and Digital Craft programmes of Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam and taught freestanding workshops and courses at Design Academy, Eindhoven.
Collective Activities
- Greasing the gears at lurk.org and co-hosting post.lurk.org
- Co-stewarding lumbung.space
- Tending to https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com with LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
- Former founding member of Varia in Rotterdam
- Member of Lodis in Malmö
- Member of Institutet för nerväxtstudier in Malmö
- Member of The Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers
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