Justyna is a research assistant at Utrecht University and has a media and culture studies background. After completing her bachelor’s degree in art history with a specialisation in Arts, Media and Society at Leiden University, she continued with a research master’s in Media, Art and Performance Studies at Utrecht University. She worked as a research assistant in the research project IMAGINE: Contested Futures of Sustainability based at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), in which she researched social imaginaries of sustainable consumption across various textual, visual and audial materials (including films, novels, and policy reports based in Oslo and Norway).

She is now part of the CONVIVIUM project, in which she researches community gardening initiatives through ‘The Open Garden’ solution. Interested in the intersection between media, art (science fiction film in particular), ecology, material culture, philosophy and social imaginaries of technology, she works with perspectives from the arts and humanities and advocates them as crucial to rethink notions and issues based on other research fields, including food consumption.

Affiliation: Utrecht University
Link: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-media-and-culture-studies
Email: j.j.jakubiec@uu.nl