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Marta Lenartowicz
Biography
Marta Lenartowicz holds a PhD in humanistic management with an interdisciplinary background in complexity studies, cognitive science, and social epistemology. She is interested in theoretical and comprehensive design approaches to the evolution of intelligence, cognitive development, and distributed cognition. In her work, she is seeking to advance the conceptual and infrastructural underpinnings that govern the evolution of intelligence of human cognitive systems at multiple scales.
From 2014 to 2024, Lenartowicz participated in several interdisciplinary research projects at CLEA, focusing on collective intelligence and cognition. In 2015-2018 she was the managing director of our Global Brain Institute, in 2018-2021 the curriculum designer and first director of the Postgraduate School of Thinking VUB, and in 2021-2024 the principal of CLEA's spinoff educational outreach initiative, Buckminster College. In 2023/24 she taught 'Complexity and Evolution' and 'Technology and Society' courses at the Department of Philosophy VUB and 'The Locus of Thought' and 'Thinking Studio' classes at the School of Thinking. For a few years, she was hosting the CLEA open seminar series.
Lenartowicz is currently involved in a governance decentralization project for NuNet.