About

YU Team

The people who make the YU Festival happen.

  • Organisation and curation

    Valentin Boczkowski and Sarah Niesius

  • Coordination and communication

    Aliza Austenfeld

  • Event management

    Valentin Boczkowski

  • Project coordinator for digital and media literacy, Smart City Dortmund team

    Michelle Lange

  • Assistant festival coordination

    Alia Brunschier

  • Administration

    Dr. Claudia Beck

  • Social media graphic design

    Canê

  • Web design

    Timo Sodenkamp

  • CI and logo design

    Marc Kemper

  • Creative coding visuals

    Florencia Alonso

Special Thanks

  • Mirjam Gaffran
  • Judith Brinkmann
  • Daria Rothkegel
  • Regina Selter
  • Matthias Kozka
  • Laurin Bürmann
  • Michael Nguyen
  • Fabian Bentrup
  • Harald Opel
  • Tobias Biseke
  • Stephan Hauptmann
  • Kai Czerwonka
  • Armel Djiné
  • Matel Ba
  • Miu-Wah Lok
  • Ilka Wessel
  • Jannis Kötting
  • Max Tröndle

A joint project

The YU Festival is a joint project of the Digital Culture department at the Dortmunder U and the Digital and Media Literacy Coordination Office of the Smart City Dortmund team.

The festival is supported by many great partners: the Digitales Koproduktionslabor (KoLab), VKII e. V., the storyLab kiU of Fachhochschule Dortmund, ATEM – Alternative Thoughts on the Emerging Metaverse, the Mono Listening Café and Processing Community Day (PCD@Dortmund).

Meet the partners