Our Founder – Edward David (ED) Berman MBE, FRSA wikilink:ED BERMAN
Edward David (ED) Berman MBE, FRSA,
(born 8 March 1941 in Lewiston, Maine), is an American-born British community educator, social activist, children’s poet, playwright, director, and producer. A Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar in 1962, Berman is Inter-Action’s founder (1968) and CEO.
In 1979, HRH Queen Elizabeth II awarded Berman an MBE for Services to Community Education and Community Arts, examples of which include City Farms, Instant Business Enterprise System and the Inter-Action Creative Game Method.
Other Projects Include the Fun Art Bus I & II, the Community Media Van, FabLab on Wheels, the Father and Mother Xmas Union and Inter-Action; the umbrella organization for a range of innovative, creativity-based projects and community training systems
Later Berman saved the World War I ship, HMS President (1918) which became the charity’s centre for fifteen years.
In 2014 he became founding chair of Rhodes Scholars in Britain and a Trustee.
In 2015 he was invited by MIT’s Bits and Atoms to establish Fab Foundation UK.