Dorothée King is professor and head of the Arts Education department and the Learning Lab Arts and Design at Basel Academy for Arts and Design. After studying art, design and media internationally, she earned her PhD from Berlin University of the Arts, where she served as a lecturer at the Graduate School and in Art Education. She has also lectured at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence College, the Interface Cultures program at the University for Art and Industrial Design Linz, and the Banff New Media Institute. She was a consultant for the TransArt Institute in New York and has been working as a freelance educator, communicator and coach since 2000.