I believe in the power of joy to make people more tolerant. And we all know about the power of fear to kill tolerance: fear kills empathy. I feel inspired by people every time I spend time with strangers in festivals. This is my very personal recollection of the last oneI have had the opportunity to experience and document.
Nova Gorica-Gorizia launch their GO! Borderless 2025 European Capital of Culture year this weekend. Can their cross-border vision be fulfilled?
As Chemnitz and Nova Gorica get ready to launch their European Capital of Culture year in 2025, it is time
I am the lead expert on this year-long project, funded by the ECoC candidate cities network Culture Next, in collaboration
I am proud to announce the publication of the #Paris2024 #CulturalOlympiad evaluation. You can find it in English here or
My latest publication on the #CulturalOlympiad, part of the “Essential Readings” collection edited by The Olympic Studies Centre for the
On the 15 November 2023 I am at the European Parliament moderating a debate with political representatives from the three
Days after the launch of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad, I have been listening to podcasts on Seoul as a
Article written for the Arts and Humanities Research Council After a year of on-and-off global lockdowns the need to gather
Final report of the Salzburg Global Seminar I co-curated in 2020, asking the question ‘What future for Festivals?’ The seminar
I acted as Expert curator for this important discussion back in 2019, part of Voices of Culture, the Structured Dialogue
Una reflexión poética de expatriada y turista en casa, sobre la necesidad de hacer y reinventar nuestras ciudades durante este
Reflections from a non-stop travellerrediscovering life in her city while isolating at home Here you have a collection of diary
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been postponed. It is only the fourth time this happens in 125
Pleased to have been appointed Advisory Board member for the EU-H2020 Social Platform for Heritage Impact Assessment (SoPHIA) @sophia_heritage I’ll
In Paris responding to a day workshop on the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad. I will be talking to key local
I am pleased to have featured in #France24 Culture / @encoref24 programme dedicated to discussing the impact of Brexit on
I directed this scoping study with my team at the Institute of Cultural Capital for the Arts and Humanities Research Council
On the 4th December 2019 I was in Brussels presenting at the European Parliament. It was a public hearing to
So pleased to feature in the latest issue of #TheSecularHeretic with an article on ‘Art and Decadence’ discussing cycles of #cityRenaissance, #regeneration & #gentrification with an emphasis on the often ungenerous impact of such processes on artists