Talk
Maya Van Leemput | Unesco Chairholder on Images of the Futures & Co-creation Researcher Open Arts & Futures – Erasmushogeschool Brussel; co-founder of Agence Future
The capacity to imagine and engage with plural futures, question dominant images of the future, and move beyond projection and prediction is prevention against foreclosing possibilities for the later than now. Drawing on examples from practices at the intersection of futures with media, arts and design, this talk explores how cultural infrastructure affords open approaches to futures and offers encounters with difference that do not require consensus and instead allow Mutually Assured Diversity to become active in the present.
Maya Van Leemput is UNESCO Chairholder on Images of the Futures and Co-creation at the RC for Open Arts & Futures of Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and the Arts. Her forward looking critical and transdisciplinairy work on media, culture, arts, and science and technology in society, uses experimental and participatory approaches. In partnership with photographer Bram Goots, she developed Agence Future, a long-term independent project for exploring images of the future, combining conversation-based approaches and visual ethnography with multi-media co-creation.
Session: New imaginaries
Venue: Kanal Box 1
Time: 11:30 – 12:00
Duration: 30′
Language: English
