International Visitors Programme
FROM
United States and United Kingdom
DATES OF VISIT
20-22 May 2015
PURPOSE OF VISIT
Steve Rura will come to Het Nieuwe Instituut to talk with staff members and Rotterdam new media professionals (i.e. games industry). He will give a keynote speech at What Design Can Do, a conference on the relevance of social design, on Thursday 21 May. The Amsterdam conference also brings to the Netherlands Charles Spence, who will deliver a keynote address on Friday 22 May. The day before, he will speak with presentations and programme expert Christine Vroom and research and development head Marina Otero at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
BIOS
Steve Rura is creative lead at the Google Creative Lab in New York. Professor Charles Spence is head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University.