I am a technology critic and privacy designer who helps citizens, designers and policymakers understand new chances and challenges in our data-driven society.…
Tijmen Schep Posts
This book helps designers and design students understand both practical and ethical aspects of creating privacy friendly services in general, and Internet…
What happens when our smart devices become aware of our reputations? Digital reputation scores that are distilled from the data we share will…
Are algorithms more neutral than people? No. Algorithms can have hidden biases. This makes them a popular way to hide power…
Early 2017 I was master of ceremony at the Masterclass Netpolitics. Over the course of seven evenings participants explore the complex interrelation…
This mediacampagne’s goal was to make people understand one thing: you do have something to hide. We asked 3 artists and 3 thinkers…
The Snowden revelations raised a question: how difficult is it to create a database of all people in a nation simply by…
I created an online tool that allows anyone to create a playlist of their favorite webpages. You can experience them as…
While working at Knowledgeland I was part of the Open Cultuur Data team. Knowledgeland has for years organized a yearly course on…
Gifted is a participatory experience that was created in 2008 for the Impakt Festival in Utrecht. It explores the future of social networks…
While working at Virtual Platform I researched and curated a guide to all the medialabs, media festivals and creative gaming companies…
Data is often more persuasive than it should be, especially when it looks good. In this event we watched the most…
This Happened is series of evenings about design processes which are organized the world over. The idea is to look into the…
While working at Virtual Platform, the Dutch institute for digital culture, I developed an event in which young talent could connect to…
Learning to program, even just a little, will help you find a job and understand the modern world. But another important…
The 3D print pen allows you to lift of from the paper, and draw into the air. This is possible because,…
In 2014 het Nieuwe Instituut remembered the start of the first world war in 1914. I curated a small exhibit about the…
Het Nieuwe Instituut houses the largest archive of architectural drawing and models in the world. I developed the idea to 3D print…
When we surf the web we are tracked by numerous advertising companies, including Google and Facebook. Because this proces is mostly invisible, we…
Modern cryptography can seem daunting, but once you get into it there is a lot of beauty to be found. One example is…
The Fund for Cultural Participation had an interesting question: could they create a more open proces for the smaller funding requests (5000…
In 2008 I worked with artist Ether Polak to prepare and film a journey to Nigeria. In Nigeria we GPS-tracked two movements of milk…
For the Cinekid festival Levien Nordeman and I created a fun installation: a large plastic mobile phone that, when you called the…