I have three ways of looking at the world: communication, information, and education.
This means that I can’t have a casual relationship with street signs, mobile interfaces, textbooks, or museum exhibitions. Sometimes they keep me up at night. I lie in bed matching strings of words across languages, painting pictures in my mind, and wondering about the basic concepts we base other learning on. Luckily I get to wake up every morning and put my mind to work on these very same things. Every day I try to make a small corner of the world easier to understand.
This page lists the qualifications I have completed and the volunteer work I am involved with in my endeavour to better understand communication, information, and education. You can learn more about my professional profile on LinkedIn. If you have a project that needs a keen eye and a brain trained to optimise messages, get in touch with me via this simple contact form.
Qualifications
Degrees
- MA Humanities (Semiotics) cum laude
University of Tartu, Estonia - BA Visual Arts (Visual Communication Design)
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Certificates
- Instructional design (online short course)
University of the Witwatersrand and GetSmarter - Copy-editing (online short course)
University of Cape Town and GetSmarter - Competent Communicator and Competent Leader
Toastmasters International - Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults)
Shane Global Language Schools, Cape Town, South Africa
Volunteer work
- Volunteer subtitle translator
TED Translators
Language coordinator for Afrikaans (belangstellendes kan by ons Facebookgroep aansluit)
Member of the German team - Volunteer tutor
Formerly Perspektivenwerkstatt 2013 e.V.
Now Neuköllner Talente, Bürgerstiftung Neukölln, Berlin, Germany - Volunteer translator
“Making forms understandable” project
KuB Berlin, Germany