LUCI Light Festival Forum – Speakers
Moderators
Jessica Férey, Deputy Director, LUCI Association
Jessica is French/American with a multidisciplinary background that includes arts management, art history, and theatre directing. She is a passionate arts-lover with particular commitments to innovative connections between people and culture and public space. As Deputy Director of LUCI she is in charge of network stewardship and development as well as events strategy. She is the project manager for the Creative Europe LAiPS project (Light & Art in Public Spaces) and oversees LUCI’s activities under the Art & Culture pillar, including the Light Festival Working Group and all things relating to creative lighting.
Previously, she was Deputy Director of the Global Cultural Districts Network and prior to that worked at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She received a Master’s in Arts Management at American University in Washington DC, where her research focused on gender equity in arts leadership.
Keynote
Beatriz Garcia, Associate Director for the Centre for Cultural Value
Dr Beatriz Garcia is an expert in international cultural policy and mega-events.
She is Associate Director at the Centre for Cultural Value, member of the Culture & Olympic Heritage Commission – International Olympic Committee and former member of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) Selection Panel. Beatriz has been at the forefront of research on the rhetoric, impact and long-term legacy of culture-led regeneration interventions since 1999, researching the medium to long-term legacy of every European Capital of Culture since their launch in 1985 and conducting fieldwork in every summer and winter Olympic Games edition since 2000. She directed and is the author of Impacts 08: ECoC Research Programme, the 30-year assessment of ECoC Success Factors & long-term Effects (European Parliament), and the International framework of good practice in research and delivery of ECoCs (European Commission). She is currently leading an international pilot study to test the capacity for ECoC bids and broader city cultural strategies to respond to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
For further information on Beatriz Garcia, click here.
Speakers
Simona Matta, Sociologist-Consultant at Kaleido’Scope
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Emanuelle Gallot-Delamezière, (Ph.D), Urban Planner and Environmental Geographer
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Sylvie Bétard, Circular Economy Consultant for Sustainability Transition & Co-Founder of Les Augures
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Jean-Michel Deleuil, University Professor in Georgraphy, Urban Studies and Planning at INSA Lyon
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