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Trained as interdisciplinary scholar in Science & Technology Studies (STS) and practical philosophy, I am interested in the ethics of societal engagement practices, both in the arts and in the sciences. I see these practices as forms of encultured ethics. My aim is to cultivate an ethical sensibility and responsive attitude among artists, designers, scientists and engineers. Read more.

socially engaged art; social design; public engagement with science; ethics of emerging technologies; virtue ethics; artistic research; valuation studies

Research Centre for Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere (AOK)
Interdisciplinary Arts, Zuyd Hogeschool (iArts)
Insittute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam (IIS)
Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM)
Centre for Ethics & Politics of Emerging Technologies (EPET)
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)