Art. Culture. Imagining Futures
Through concept-driven publications, experimental formats, and art-based projects, I explore how futures are imagined and experienced.
I'm less interested in predicting the futures than in examining how they are narrated and made tangible.
Art curator. Futures Researcher. Cultural strategist.
Working at the intersection of art, culture, and futures thinking.
Olga Marcinkiewicz Quiros is a Polish art curator, researcher and cultural strategist with over 20 years of experience developing interdisciplinary art and culture projects.
Her work spans roles from strategic advisor to cultural institutions to academic lecturer, focusing on cross-sector collaboration, cultural strategy, and futures-oriented approaches to social change.
Olga M. Quiros
She has curated exhibitions, festivals, and art projects, including the Skyway International Light Festival, which integrated art, science, and technology in large-scale public experiences.
As a founder of Mamazaki Studio (est. 2013), she has led research and development projects in science communication and art-based cultural innovation.
Her current work investigates how cultural narratives and cosmological assumptions shape the ways societies imagine and design futures.
education
FUTURES STUDIES AND SPECULATIVE DESIGN
Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA
2024
2000-2004
1995-1997
1994-1995
GESTALT COUNCELLING
GESTALT INSTITUTE,PL,IT
PhD-LEVEL RESEARCH
History of ideas
University of Oxford, UK
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Central European University,CZ
1989-1994
THEATRE STUDIES
Warsaw Academy of Theatre,PL
MASTER OF ARTS
A speculative quiz set in 2049, that explores possible futures for the Gaia concept and our relationships with Earth, technology, and the Cosmos. Through scenario-based questions, participants reflect on their values and their agency in shaping planetary futures.
A research project exploring emerging futures imaginaries. Holotopia investigates how scientific discoveries, cultural narratives, and cosmological assumptions shape the way we imagine — and design — futures.
A developing practice connecting research on futures imaginaries with cultural production. Through experimental formats, publications, and public lectures, Holo Praxis explores how futures can be examined, articulated, and put to work.
