This is where I begin. I don’t predict the future — I help to understand it and work with it consciously.
What can we learn from art? Imagination and sensitivity. Design gives them structure and translates them into process. And action? When critical thinking is strengthened, it emerges naturally and with confidence.
Hello, I’m Marta
- I connect art, design, and science — and work with knowledge as a shared process. I listen first. Then I inspire and transform ways of thinking.
- I am a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. Diversity allows me to connect perspectives, work across multiple contexts, and build coherent frameworks for complex questions.
- I publish, research, verify, and teach — so that knowledge can initiate real change.
dr hab. Marta A. Flisykowska
What I do?
1 SPECULATIVE DESIGN
Speculative design is, for me, a working methodology and a structure for developing imagination, strengthening critical thinking, and organising complex problems and multiple possible scenarios. For over 10 years, I have worked in this field creatively, educationally and academically, in dialogue with future studies. This is the area in which I completed my habilitation and which I continue to develop consistently.
2 ART & RESEARCH
Art is my research laboratory.
Through artistic practice, I experiment, test ideas, and develop research questions related to the future, technology, culture, and aesthetics — and to the relationships and consequences that emerge between them. I create installations, artifacts, exhibitions, and publications. Art-based research forms the core of my research practice, allowing me to combine theoretical reflection with material, experiential forms of inquiry.
3 EDUCATION
I see education as a space for shared learning and real change. For over 15 years, I have led educational processes in design and creative practices — as a lecturer, through workshops and lectures, in different countries. I strongly believe in learning through experience and in knowledge-sharing as a continuous process.
Train your imagination muscle with me!
Stay a little longer!
I invite you into my world — get to know me through my work. Explore my portfolio of design fiction projects, exhibitions, and installations.
You can also discover my thinking through recordings, podcasts, interviews, conferences, and publications.
