Pawel Pokutycki (PL/NL) is a creative technologist, designer, researcher and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands. In 2005 he initiated early activities of the RFID Lab, later called the AR+RFID Lab, an experimental interdisciplinary platform for research in the application of Augmented Reality (AR) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies in the field of art and design.
His recent projects focus on exploring relationships between new media theory, political, social, cultural and environmental studies by concept development and prototyping for interactive media. He advocates a design methodology based on his own, distinctive interpretation of the Black Box Theory, which he presented at a TEDx event in 2012.
Currently, he is conducting multidisciplinary research on “Humane Technology for the Global South: Ethics of Interaction Design in the (post)Colonial Context”, besides Europe frequently lecturing and giving master classes across Latin America, Africa and Asia. In years 2017-2018 he was elected chair of Central Participation Council of the University of the Arts The Hague (Royal Academy of Art + Royal Conservatoire). In 2022-2023 he received the Impact: Climate Award from ITAC (International Teaching Artists Collaborative) for educational work with youth in The Netherlands, Poland, Jordan and Colombia on climate change problematics based on experimental use of new digital technologies.
He is a member of the Representative Board of ELIA, a globally connected European network organisation representing nearly 300 art academies and universities. He has also been a committee member for ‘Digital Culture’ in Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds), a nominator to the Prince Claus Award and a supervisory board member of Heden/Today.