Maya Van Leemput is UNESCO Chairholder on Images of the Futures and Co-creation for the research group OPEN Arts & Futures at Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where she also teaches Strategic Futures Orientation for final year Idea & Innovation Management students. Her critical, forward-looking transdisciplinary work on media, culture, arts, (cross-cultural) communication, development, and science and technology in society, uses experimental and participatory approaches. Maya’s expertise in futures literacy, collective foresight and how media, art and design processes, contribute to the co-creation of images of the futures and more speculative cultures has shaped her collaborative international practice. In partnership with photographer Bram Goots, Maya developed Agence Future, a long-term independent project for exploring images of the future, combining conversation-based approaches and visual ethnography with multi-media. Based on her research and creative work, Maya has contributed to numerous contemporary arts exhibitions, media and technology festivals, and academic conferences. She is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and a founding member of the interdisciplinary visual arts collective OST and the Plurality University.
 

'My relation to PNT Theory, although not quite chaotic, is so complex and contradictory that I would call it postnormal.'