President of Lucitopia Rural Design Challenge
Executive Director & General Manager of ZIXI QINGLIANGSHAN LUCITOPIA TOWN DEV. CO., LTD., Entrepreneur.
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Andrew Bullen has taught literature, creative writing and design at universities in Sussex, Berlin, Amsterdam and Utrecht. He co-founded the pioneering Europe Online in Luxembourg, directed the Media Guild Creative Industries incubator in Amsterdam and the Futur en Seine Festival in Paris. He is founder of the Creative Cooperative, co-creator of the European Street Design Challenge (ESDC) and he has created and run citizen co-design and social entrepreneur workshops for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Georgia, Cairo and Alexandria. His thoughts on Design Thinking can be read in the collection: Driving Desired Futures: Turning Design Thinking into Real Innovation (Birkhäuser, Basel, 2014).
Co-Founder & Director of C-PLATFORM, Appointed Guest Curator of Guangdong Museum of Art. Researcher in Visual Culture, Curator, Artist, Lecturer. He graduated from Xiamen University Art College with a MA in Fine Arts in 2009. During the period he also studied at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was Curator at Guangdong Museum of Art and Lecturer at Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College. His research focuses on Multimedia Art, Communication Design and Curatorial Practice. In the last few years, he has conducted practical research and a series of explorations focusing on the issue of art intervention in the public realm. Recent projects include: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Jimei×Arles International Photo Festival, etc.
Janine Huizenga studied Photography, Audiovisual and Theatre Design at the Rietveld Academie. She is a part-time designer at Waag Society, where she was creative director from 1996-2008. Janine has significant experience in education, for instance at Willem de Kooning Academie, HvA, HKU, Rietveld Academy and TU Eindhoven. Janine held the position of chair of the E-culture committee at the Creative Industries Fund from 2013 – 2016. Currently she is head of the department of Interactive/Media/Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Curator of C-PLATFORM, Artist. He Graduated from Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in 2014, School of Arts of University College Ghent, Belgium, Master in Fine Arts; In 2012, He was selected by Asia-Europe Meeting DUO (ASEM-DUO) Fellowship Programme, and participated in the exchange programme in LUCA School of Arts in Belgium. His research and practice is mainly in media art and cross-media design. He used to work in Fisheye Cross-Media Production Company in Wetteren, Belgium, and gave lessons in the art and design department in the universities in China. Main Programs and Exhibitions Participated: Honeybot installation for ISE Expo, The Rolling Snowball #5 – Djúpivogur, Iceland, MAP#18 Points of Reference & What is Important.