Harold Pflug

Harold Pflug is a teacher of research, media, and society at Creative Business and Communication (CO+CB) and engaged with the PubHubs project as a researcher.

Harold has a background in media history, media sociology, cultural studies and research, both as a teacher and researcher. After nearly ten years at Utrecht University, he joined the Creative Business programme at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). He’s been teaching courses on media concepting, media and representation, media analysis and applied research skills, specifically design thinking and UX-research. 

Currently, Harold is affiliated as a researcher with Civic Interaction Design – an interdisciplinary research group at the AUAS – developing use cases for PubHubs, a Dutch community network based on public values. Also he’s a co-developer for a new minor called Story Hacking, helping students to deconstruct normalized or dominant societal narratives and create counter-narratives utilizing futuring, visual storytelling and narratology as a theoretical base.