Erik Hekman
Current role: Workshop Host
Erik Hekman is a researcher at “Human Experience & Media Design,” a research group at HU University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, The Netherlands. With backgrounds in IT and media technology, he bridges the domains of technology, media, and culture in order to make media and communication students digital savvy. Together with Aletta Smits, he has developed the master program Datadriven Design. With their students they develop datadriven concepts that are both practically applicable and rigorously rooted in academic research. Main focus of his research lies on how public values are shaped by technology and how they can be measured