Author

Derrick de Kerckhove

Director of The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology

Professor in the Departament of French at the University of Toronto

He is Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1975 and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours (France) in 1979.

Derrick de Kerckhove has offered connected intelligence workshops worldwide, and now offers this innovative approach to business, government and academe to help small groups to think together in a disciplined and effective way while using digital technologies. In the same line, he has contributed to the architecture of Hypersession, a collaborative software now being developed by Emitting Media and used for various educational situations. As a consultant in media, cultural interests and related policies, Derrick de Kerckhove has participated in the preparation and brainstorming sessions for the plans for: the Ontario Pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville, the Canada in Space exhibit, and the Toronto Broadcast Centre for the CBC.

He has been involved in the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris for 2004. He is member of the cultural committee of Toronto's bid for the Olympics in 2008, active member of the Vivendi Institut de prospective where he is in charge of investigating the future technological and business development of the new technologies. He has been decorated by the Government of France with the order of "Les Palmes académiques".

Member of the Club of Rome since 1995. Derrick de Kerckhove is, most recently, the holder of the prestigious Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Publications

  • Understanding 1984 (UNESCO, 1984)
  • McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo (Bulzoni, 1984), co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci
  • The Alphabet and the Brain (Springer Verlag, 1988), co-edited with Charles Lumsden
  • La civilisation vidéo-chrétienne (France, 1990; Italy, 1991)
  • Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business (Bosch & Keuning, 1991)
  • The Skin of Culture (Somerville Press, 1995)
  • Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997)
  • The Architecture of Intelligence (Denmark, 2000)

More information about the author: http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/derrickdekerckhove.htm