European Centre for Art, Culture and Science

Monday April 14 2008 / Culture & Science

Masters of Intervention - The New Media Deal

In cooperation with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (University of Amsterdam) and the Amsterdam Local Authority, the Office for Social Engineering will present the most original contemporary thinkers on intervention in four monthly meetings. The series Masters of Intervention is the public part of the University of Amsterdam module ‘Intervention in the Big City': four city problems, four student teams, four months, four solutions.

In this episode Michel Bauwens and Chris Keulemans will have a conversation on social engineering and the limits of social interventions. Can information technology solve our social problems? Is the future of Social Engineering Web-based?

Michel Bauwens is one of the single most important Internet Gurus of today. After a corporate career in information technology, he moved on to create the Foundation for P2P Alternatives, an online community that advocates the peer to peer-concept not simply as a technology, but as new way of (democratic) living.

Amsterdam's urban culture connoisseur and writer Chris Keulemans will interview Michel Bauwens. Unfortunately Willem Velthoven had to cancel.

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