Kars Alfrink
Affiliated Researcher
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKars Alfrink is an affiliated researcher and recent PhD from TU Delft who translates 15+ years of interaction design and entrepreneurial experience into research on contestable, democratically governed AI systems. He blends hands-on product and game-design sensibilities with critical sociopolitical theory to design public AI that remains subject to societal control. Kars’s current work, including the People’s Compute project, uniquely connects contestability at the application level to questions of infrastructure sovereignty by interrogating data centers, compute allocation and independence from tech oligopolies. He cofounded a playful design studio (Hubbub) and Tech Solidarity NL, reflecting a long-standing commitment to collective, justice-oriented tech practice that informs his research methods. Based in Utrecht, he advises organizations through his consultancy SORCEREE, translating sociotechnical critique into practical design interventions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Interaction Design, Master of Arts (M.A.), Interaction Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Design, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Design at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, Indonesian
Github Skills (25)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
karsalfrink/techsolidaritynl
Feb 2017 - Feb 2020
Tech Solidarity NL website
Contributions:184 commits, 23 PRs, 101 pushes in 3 years
solidarity
karsalfrink/useless-butler
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:108 commits, 2 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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