In less than ten years the world’s largest cities will be exclusively located outside of the West. The metropolis, zenith of Western civilization, will be a property of the third world. What will be the consequences of this paradigm shift?

How do you design an object that trades on the unique physical aspects of a freely copyable digital work? As more and more artists experiment with free downloads and paid premium items, we've begun a glorious arms-race to see who can create and sell the most outrageous, artisanal, limited items.

‘Synthetic Biology’ has received much attention recently with the announcement by Craig Venter of the first ‘synthetic organism’. It is a field in its infancy, and a field where the challenges, concerns, issues and potential are largely unprecedented.

Zaterdag 20 november komt de volledige Nederlandse cultuursector in actie tegen de forse aangekondigde bezuinigingen door het kabinet.

Op 14 oktober was er in de Nicolaïkerk Utrecht een debat met Frans Timmermans, oud-staatssecretaris van Buitenlandse Zaken. Hij is Tweede Kamerlid van de PvdA en de Vrede van Utrecht Leerstoelhouder 2010. Het debat stond in het teken van de toekomst van Europa.

In 2010 en 2011 verzorgt Engage! de interne webcast van de nieuwjaarstoespraak van de directeur en de cabaretvoorstelling die daar op volgt.

Jeff Jarvis will discuss how our fundamental assumptions about media – what it is, how it operates, how it is supported, how people discover it, and how it relates to the public – must all be challenged. How will these changes and challenges lead to new opportunities and new efficiencies?

Engage! verzorgde voor Picnic meercamera videoregistraties van alle lezingen in de Lecture Room, inclusief de Postcode Lottery Green Challenge Award Ceremony en de Vodafone Mobile Clicks Award Ceremony. Ook verzorgden wij live cameraprojectie van de sprekers.

Andreas Weigend studies people and the data they create and share. He works with companies that are eager to discover and tackle the pertinent questions and to develop strategies to realize the untapped power of data. In this lecture he will talk about the power of data.