 In March 2012 he was appointed De Tao Master of Technoetic Arts at (DTMA), a high-level, multi-disciplined, creativity-oriented higher education institution in Shanghai, China.In 2014, he established the Ascott Technoetic Arts Studio at DTMA creating the Technoetic Arts advanced degree programme, taught jointly with the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art.The DeTao-Node of the Planetary Collegium was established in 2015.