Pleun van Dijk – is a speculative artist and designer fascinated by the ever-evolving world around her. The exponential speed at which science and technology are developing provides us with new opportunities and confronts us with complex ethical questions. These questions often stay abstract due to the complexity of scientific research papers. The limitations of text and spoken language make it almost impossible to envision the future impact of these inventions and how they could be influenced by the decisions we make today.
In her work, Pleun visualises and translates these futures into tangible speculative scenarios to contribute to the ethical debate. By triggering the viewer’s imagination through multiple senses. Her works show the possible, impossible, utopian and dystopian outcomes of our seemingly insignificant decisions today.
