Deborah Hustic

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About Deborah Hustic

Innovation strategist, creative technologist, senior project manager, curator, educator, media artist. Organized more than 700 workshops, conferences, exhibitions, festivals and events in cultural and tech innovation sectors. Deborah has taken part in numerous international and domestic exhibitions, festivals and conferences concerning DIY/DIWO, STEAM, new media and hacker/maker cultures, as well as on topics about development of art/tech/science education through workshops. Workshop facilitator for children, youth and grown-ups in the fields of creative electronics, design thinking, system innovation, citizen science, social inclusion and eTextiles. Curated 43 international and domestic exhibitions in Croatia in the fields of new media and hybrid arts. Founder of Body Pixel Studio and Textil{e}tronics platform. Creative director, producer and PM of Radiona.org - Zagreb Makerspace (Association for Development of ‘do-it-yourself’ Culture). Co-founder and Co-CEO of start-up Intergalaktik.eu based in Zagreb. Deborah Hustic has experiences working in private sector (publishing industry), non-profit (innovation) and public bodies (international relations, EU affairs, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion). For more than a decade she has been exploring and working on sustainable models of management for media labs, hackerspaces and makerspaces. For 14 years involved in community building and managing eco systems at the intersections of creativity, education and innovation. Trained and certificated in project management, system innovation and design thinking. Educated on more than 300 workshops in the fields of media arts, innovation, project management, cultural policies (mobility, intercultural relations, EU projects), creative industries, social entrepreneurship and writing projects for EU funds. Holds MA in Comparative literature and Ethnology at the University of Zagreb. More detailed CV: