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Kwela Sabine Hermanns

Associate chair, design for sustainability

Education

  • M.F.A., interactive media, University of Westminster
  • B.A., commercial music, University of Westminster

Credentials

  • Associate chair, design for sustainability, 2024–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Chair, service design, design for sustainability, 2023–2024, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Associate chair, industrial design, design for sustainability, 2019–2023, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Professor, industrial design, 2015–2019, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Experience designer and curator, 2015–present, THNK Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership
  • Lecturer sustainable leadership and entrepreneurship, 2009–2012, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Part time
  • Lecturer international media management, 2010–2012, InHolland University, The Netherlands
    Part time
  • Freelance consultant, 2009–present, service design, design thinking, innovation, experience and human interaction design
  • Editorial board member and feature author, 2009–present, Second Sight Trend Magazine
  • Team leader transformational entrepreneurship, 2008–2009, KaosPilots, The Netherlands
  • Freelance consultant in creative industries, 2008, City University, London
  • Freelance consultant for scenario planning, 2008, Institute for Leadership Innovation
  • Lecturer in media and entertainment management, 2005–2007, Professional University of Breda, The Netherlands
  • Assessor, 2004–2005, BBC Fame Academy for Educational Bursaries, The Hub & Sir Paul McCartney Fund, London
  • Lecturer in media studies, 2001–2005, UOWS, Glasgow
  • Lecturer in creative industries, Sept. 1997–2001, University of Westminster, School of Media
  • Visiting lecturer, 1999–2008, City University, London
  • Visiting lecturer, 1997–2001, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS); Chelsea & Kensington School of Arts; University of Westminster
  • Lecturer, 1997–1998, King's College for Further Education, London
  • Club promoter/A&R scout/PR, 1992–1994, Barfly London

Organizations

  • Thomas Square Neighborhood Association, Savannah, Ga., board member, 2017–present

Publications and presentations

  • "MeSearch: Will My Quantified Self Qualify Me for the Singularity?" Second Sight Trend Magazine, 2011.
  • "Particulum Vitae – The Future of Education," Second Sight Trend Magazine, 2010.
  • "Age of Innovalesque – Space Based Innovation," Second Sight Trend Magazine, 2010.
  • "Homo Univermobilis – The New Renaissance Man," Second Sight Trend Magazine, 2009.
  • Contesting the Ideology of Hyphens – Legal Imperialism and the Global Music Industry, Routledge Series Readings in Law and Popular Culture, Osborn, G. and Greenfield, S. (eds), Routledge: London and New York, 2006.
  • "The Hand That Sets the Table ... The Political Economy and Self-Reflexive Project of Intellectual Property Law in Relation to Traditional Knowledge," International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics Vol. 1 (1), Feb. 2005.
  • Book Review, "A Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: The New Enclosures? by Christopher May,” New Media & Society, Vol. 3(2), SAGE Publications, 2001.

Conference papers

  • "Music Copyright, Actor-Network-Theory and Hybridity," Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 2002.
  • "Des réseaux du son? La question des droits de propriété intellectuelle dans le domaine de la musique: une analyse selon la perspective de la théorie de l'acteur-réseau." International Association for Media & Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2002.
  • "Sound Networks? Intellectual Property Rights and Music from an Actor-Network-Theory Perspective," Socio-Legal Studies Association, Aberystwick, Wales, Apr. 2002.
  • "Questioning Music Copyright from an Actor-Network-Theory Perspective: Excluded Middle, Excluding Difference?" Creativity in Question conference, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2002.
  • "Sound Networks: The Internet, Music Technology, and Intellectual Property Rights from an Actor-Network-Theory Perspective," International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Turku, Finland, June 2001.
  • "Level-playing or Devil-paying? Music Copyright and Developing Countries," British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Brunel University, London, April 2001.
  • "A Licence to Bill? Rhetoric and Reality in International Copyright Law and the Developing World," International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Surrey, London, July 2000.