Rikke Toft Nørgård is Associate Professor at The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark, where she also serves as Steering group member of Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF). She is elected Board member of the national Danish Network for Educational Development in Higher Education (DUN), where she is also founder and co-leader of the DUN-SIG on Digital Pedagogy & Learning in Higher Education (DiP) and Editor in Chief of The Danish Journal of Higher Education (DUT). Dr Nørgård’s research and projects focuses on the complexities, challenges and potentials of higher education futures in the intersections of design, technology, playfulness, and philosophy and with a specific focus on culture and the humanities. She is currently the coordinator and scientific lead of the Horizon Europe project EPIC-WE: Empowered Participation through Ideating Cultural Worlds and Environments: youth imagining, creating and exchanging cultural values and heritage through game-making (2023–26).