Andrew Dubber

This episode of Inside EOSC features Andrew Dubber, senior researcher at the Industry Commons Foundation and director of MTF Labs. Andrew usually hosts the podcast, so this time the roles are reversed and his LUMEN colleague Nicki Lisa Cole asks the questions. We recorded the conversation in Brussels in September 2026, at the second Innovation Prototyping Lab. Andrew explains how affordances, what people can do with a technology, shape his practice-based research and his thinking about media change. He argues that publicly funded research should deliver as much public benefit as it can, and that open science makes room for connections across disciplines. He sees the EOSC Innovation Centre, which LUMEN is developing through the Innovation Prototyping Labs, as a transferable methodology for connecting results from different EOSC projects. He also describes the MTF Labs Open Minds education technology platform that gives students a "why" to build with technology before the "how". Andrew traces his route from radio engineering through broadcasting, record production and university teaching and research in New Zealand and the UK to Music Tech Fest and MTF Labs, with music, technology, culture and social change running through it all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.