Nik Baerten

Biography

Nik Baerten was trained as a knowledge engineer (artificial intelligence). For several years he was a multidisciplinary researcher at the Digital Culture Department of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute (NL). In 2004 he co-founded Pantopicon, a foresight and design studio based in Antwerp (Belgium). The studio crafts provocative futures in order to stimulate debate regarding tomorrow's challenges and opportunities and their implications for today’s choices. Through tailor-made design processes, tools and performances - blending analysis & speculation - the studio supports both public and private organisations in jointly exploring the long term, in building visions and strategies, in designing concepts for new products, services and experiences.