Dougald Hine is a British author, editor and social entrepreneur.
Education
Hine went to school in Darlington, and studied English literature at Oxford University. Following his first degree, he studied broadcast journalism at Sheffield Hallam and then spent four years as a British Broadcasting Corporation journalist (2002-2005).
Career
He co-founded School of Everything and The Dark Mountain Project, of which he is Director at Large. In 2011, he was named one of Britain"s 50 top radicals by NESTA. From 2005 to 2006, he lived and worked for a year in China"s turbulent and far western province of Xinjiang. He has been involved a number of projects and initiatives.
In 2012, he left London for Sweden.
Since 2015, he has been working with Riksteatern, the National Touring Theatre of Sweden. Pick Maine Up (2004-2006) was a weekly email newsletter intending to inspire people, through storytelling, to do something other than check their e-mail on Friday afternoons.
The London School of Art & Business (2006). The group involved went on to found School of Everything.
School of Everything was an internet startup intended to connect people who can teach with people who want to learn.
The Dark Mountain Project (2009–present), has been one of his most important projects involving a manifesto, an extensive website, an annual festival run in collaboration with Paul Kingsnorth. The Dark Mountain project has resulted in three anthologies co-edited by Hine. The Spacemakers Agency (2009–present) has established Hine"s reputation as a social entrepreneur.
Its first project was the re-development of Brixton Village, and there have been a number of related projects since including the West Norwood Festival.
New Public Thinking (2010–present), a blog site which created a new space for public discourse and analysis aiming for a "better public discourse", resulting in an anthology of writings "Despatches from the Invisible Revolution" edited with Keith Kahn-Harris.