LUMA Days #4 / In Transit : A Geography of Change

"In early 2019, when we were considering the theme of LUMA Days #4 to be held in the summer of 2020, we could never have imagined how relevant it would become in the year ahead. The topic that was to bring us together in Arles was “In Transit. A Geography of Change”. By March 2020, due to the effects of COVID-19, nearly four billion people around the world went into lockdown. Overnight, the ecological, economic, and social transition urgencies became emergencies.

Before long, the programmes that we had planned were dematerialised and resurfaced on our website, where artists, architects, scientists, sociologists, and philosophers discussed the impending upheaval, but also possible ways forward into this new state of the world.

Charting such a course had its fair share of obstacles, bypasses, crossings, slowdowns, and accelerations addressed here through multiple interventions and contributions. Each perspective brought forth a need and urgency for a transition.

This period, while limited in social gatherings, was ripe for collaborations and partnerships that converged around shared values and new ideas.

While this unprecedented health crisis did not offer the opportunity for all of us to come together in Arles this year, it has proven to what extent humanity is capable of agility, adaptation, and sharing. Whatever conditions may arise, let us make a date to meet in Arles, in 2021, and together map out a new and common geography."

Maja Hoffmann

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Michel Bauwens

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Michel Bauwens is the founder and president of the P2P Foundation. He works with an international network of researchers exploring peer production, governance, and property.

He travels around the world leading workshops and giving lectures on P2P and the commons as emerging paradigms, as well as the possibilities they offer for moving toward a post-capitalist world.

Michel Bauwens is also Research Director of CommonsTransition.org, a platform dedicated to developing policies that foster a commons-based society. He is a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, alongside Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, which organizes major international conferences on the commons and commons-based economics.

Laurens Bekemans

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Laurens Bekemans is an architect and cofounder of BC architects & studies, an architecture firm, nonprofit research entity, and materials laboratory based in Brussels, as well as, more recently, “BC materials,” an urban mining company that repurposes construction debris. BC comprises BC architects, studies, and materials. BC stands for “Brussels Cooperation” and illustrates how BC has taken root in a place and in the spirit of its inhabitants. Founded in 2012 as a hybrid practice, BC pushes the boundaries of architecture in a pragmatic way. With three distinct legal entities, the team engages in a variety of experimental projects through which it designs bioregional and circular architecture, studies educational and construction processes, and produces new materials using local waste streams such as excavated soil.

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Caroline Bernard

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Caroline Bernard holds a PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts, with a specialization in Visual Arts and Photography, from Université Paris 8. An artist and educator, she has taught at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie since 2015, where she directs the Prospectives de l’image research laboratory.

Formerly a research associate at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in Switzerland, she has also taught at the School of Applied Arts (CEPV) in Vevey, Switzerland, since 2007. She is also an Associate Professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts (EAVM) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in Canada.

James Binning

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James is one of the founding members of Assemble and has taught at the CASS School of Architecture and Design since 2015, where he leads a postgraduate design studio.

At Assemble, he has worked on a wide range of projects, from the design and fabrication of furniture and installations to the coordination of large-scale collective building projects and the design of public spaces in the UK and abroad.

Jean Blaise

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Jean Blaise was born in Algiers in 1951. After studying literature at the University of Bordeaux, he became Director of the Centre culturel de Saint-Médard-en-Jalles in 1976, followed by the Centre d’action culturelle de Chelles from 1977 to 1979. He was then tasked with establishing the Scène nationale de la Guadeloupe (1980–1982), before becoming the founding director of the Maison de la culture de Nantes (1982–1983) and, from 1984, Director of the Centre de recherche pour le développement culturel.

In 2000, he founded and became Director of Le Lieu unique in Nantes. He later became Director of Le Voyage à Nantes, a cultural initiative dedicated to promoting the Nantes metropolitan area. In 2014, he was appointed President of the Mission nationale d’art et de culture dans l’espace public (MNACEP) at the French Ministry of Culture.

Jean Blaise has also created numerous cultural events, including the Les Allumées festival, the Hué Festival in Vietnam, Paris’s Nuit Blanche (2002 and 2005), and the Estuaire contemporary art biennial in 2007. Since 2015, he has also served as Artistic Director of the celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of Le Havre.

Petra Blaisse

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Petra Blaisse started her career in 1978 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts. From 1986 onwards, she worked as a freelance exhibition designer and won distinction for her installations of architectural works. Gradually, her focus shifted to the use of textiles, light, and finishes in interior spaces and, at the same time, to the design of gardens and landscapes. In 1991, she founded Inside Outside. The studio worked in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape, and exhibition design. From 1999, Blaisse invited specialists from various disciplines to work with her, and currently, the team consists of about ten people of different professions and nationalities. Inside Outside works internationally on projects of increasing technical sophistication, ambition, and scale. Throughout the years, the studio has collaborated with various architects and designers. Blaisse has lectured and taught extensively in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Her work has been included in numerous design and architecture exhibits worldwide. In 2000, a solo exhibition on Inside Outside’s work was organized at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Soho, New York, for which Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom created Blaisse’s first publication, the “Movements, 25%” catalogue. The first monograph on the work of Petra Blaisse / Inside Outside, designed by Irma Boom, was published in February 2007 by NAi Publishers and was reprinted by The Monacelli Press, a division of Random House Inc., New York, in October 2009.

Lionel Bordeaux

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Lionel Bordeaux has spent 20 years in the world of political administration and French politics as Advisor in Communications (in the Prime Minister’s office, in the Ministry for Towns, and at the Town Hall of Paris). Later he was Vice-General Secretary in charge of communication and partnerships for the COP21 climate event. Since then, the environment has become the central topic of his professional activity and he has, for example, helped activists defend the world’s great natural areas (the Australian coral reefs, the Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada, etc.). At the present time he is leading a project to manufacture a football without using either plastic or animal leather in order to produce the ball that will be used in the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.

Alexandre Cadain

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A graduate from ENS Ulm and HEC Paris, passionate about art and technology, Alexandre Cadain believes in applying radical imagination to the world’s grandest challenges. Exploring new tracks for inclusive progress, he founded the studio ANIMA to help organizations such as space agencies (CNES, ESA) use their assets to be part of the solution. The studio leverages collective and artificial intelligences to produce impact projects with its partners. It currently works on launching the AI Commons’ knowledge hub to democratize AI resources (data, algorithms, computing power).

Alain Caille

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Alain Caillé is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre. He is the founding director of La Revue du MAUSS (Mouvement anti-utilitariste en science sociale), which, following in the footsteps of Marcel Mauss’s seminal The Gift (1925), challenges the dominant tendency in the social sciences and in moral and political philosophy to view human beings solely as separate individuals who are mutually indifferent and driven by self-interest.

His most recent book is Extensions du domaine du don. Demander – donner – recevoir – rendre (Actes Sud, September 2019).

Alain Caillé is also one of the leading figures of the Convivialist Movement. His most recent text, Internationale convivialiste, Second manifeste convivialiste. Pour un monde post-néolibéral (Actes Sud, February 2020), was signed by 300 intellectuals and activists from 33 countries.

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Éric de Chassey

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Éric de Chassey is a director of the French National Institute of Art History (INHA) and professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the École normale supérieure in Lyon, France. Between 2009 and 2015, he was Director of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici. He has published extensively on the arts and visual culture from the 20th and 21st centuries as well as curated numerous exhibitions, in France and the rest of the world.

Emanuele Coccia

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Emanuele Coccia (born 1976) is an Italian-born philosopher and lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, whose work offers an original and innovative reflection on life. With Emmanuel Alloa, Emanuele Quinz and Antonio Somaini, he co-directs the Médias/Théories series at Les presses du réel.

Ken De Cooman

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Ken is co-founder of BC Architects & Studies, and BC Materials. With these companies, BC starts from architecture, over research and expertise and experiment, towards material production and contracting. As a hybrid office, BC is manoeuvring the boundaries of all these disciplines in a doers manner. Ken De Cooman holds a Masters in Philosophy and Architecture, and a Candidate in Psychology; has published reflections in OASE, Domus; has (guest)teached at KULeuven (BE), ULB-LaCambre (BE), ETH Zurich (CH), EiABC (ET).

Laetitia Dosch

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Laetitia Dosch, actress, author and stage director, shares with us her vision of the role of the artist in a world in transition. In her artistic practice, in an effort to fill the void created by the crisis of sensitivity, she brings to life the different points of view, which include those that go beyond the human race. Trained as an actress, Laetitia Dosch grew up surrounded by animals and is also a writer. She wrote in particular a play with a horse, “Hate”. Her writing is inspired by her work as an actress, and is about putting yourself in the place of someone else. In the case of working with different animal species, this might sometimes seem close to anthropomorphism, although that isn’t how she would define it—or at least, she does not feel that it is less real than putting yourself in the place of another human being. She is currently working on a film about the trial of a dog and on plays and performances on the subject of vegetables and vegetation. The most recent is “Radio Trees”, a programme broadcast by trees to other trees.

Julien Dossier

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Julien Dossier is the head of Quattrolibri, a consulting firm specialised in ecological transition strategies. An expert on sustainable cities, he co-wrote Paris change d’ère. He teaches carbon neutrality strategies at HEC Paris.

Emmanuel Druon

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After training in human sciences at the Sorbonne, Emmanuel Druon’s professional career took him to L’Oréal, Le Bourget and Kindy before he joined Pocheco in 1997. Here his job is to bring together the talents of about a hundred people at the service of a specific project: how to do business without destroying the environment. Pocheco produces a billion envelopes and 100 million zero waste bags per year, and Pocheco also produces ideas and vegetables with permaculture. The firm helps companies move towards the “ecolonomic” transition, at a galop, right across the world. The team ensures that Pocheco applies on site what has been recommended to its clients. The firm’s production is zero waste, zero fossil fuel, zero nuclear, zero plastic, and self-sufficient in electricity and water. 85% of the site is permeable and has been returned to its natural state. Emmanuel and his team give lectures and are the authors of three books recently published by Actes Sud, with two further works due to be published in September, again by Actes Sud.

Pierre Ducrozet

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Pierre Ducrozet (1982, Lyon) is the author of five novels: Requiem pour Lola rouge (2010, Vocation Award) ((Requiem for Red Lola)), La vie qu’on voulait ((The Life We Wanted)) 2013, Eroica (2015), both published by Grasset, L’Invention des corps (Inventing Bodies) (Actes Sud), which won the Flore Prize 2017, and Le Grand Vertige (The Big Vertigo) (Actes Sud), an adventure novel set against a background of the challenge of climate change, to come out during this autumn’s publishing season. He writes a regular column for Libération, “Résidence sur la terre” ((Living on Earth)). He has co-written three books with Julieta Cánepa around their joint reflections on ecology.

Philippe Durance

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As a Professor, Philippe Durance holds the Chair of Prospective and Sustainable Development at the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) and is also a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in the Sciences of Action (LIRSA). His work is principally concerned with systems of anticipation and social change.

Stéphane Durand

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Biologist, ornithologist and Journalist, Stéphane Durand is also a scientific advisor for the cinema. He has in particular worked with Jacques Perrin and co-written the films « Le Peuple migrateur » [The Migratory People], « Les Ailes de la nature » [The Wings of Nature], « Voyageurs du ciel » [Travellers of the Sky], « Océans » [Oceans] and « Les Saisons » [The Seasons]. He has directed the collection « Mondes Sauvages » [“Wild Worlds”] for Actes Sud, in which his most recent work has been published, « 20 000 ans ou la grande histoire de la nature » [20,000 Years or Nature’s Great Story] which retraces the path of a History of France, away from human beings, or rather, parallel to them. He helps us discover Nature’s fascinating evolution and adaptations as well as her formidable profusion.

Maria Finders

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Maria Finders born in Athens, Greece in 1959, lives and works between Amsterdam, Arles and Paris. She is the curator of LUMA Days for LUMA Arles. After her studies in History of Film and Art at Queens University (Kingston, Ontario) and at the Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec), and in drawing and painting at the Paris School of Beaux Arts, Maria Finders began a 30-year career that has mixed art, business and technology. In 2002, she joined Art Basel to create and develop the Art Basel Conversations which she directed in Basel and in Miami Beach (2002 to 2008) together with Hans Ulrich Obrist. After joining Brunswick Arts as European Director, she was their Strategic Consultant in Communications and Culture, later creating and organising the Global Art Forum for Art Dubai – Qatar and Dubai, from 2007 to 2009. In 2005, as part of her functions at Brunswick Arts, later at the OMA/AMO, Finders began a decade of projects for the Venice Biennale: she was Art correspondent in 2009 for Daniel Birnbaum and Architectural Correspondent for Rem Koolhaas in 2014, as well as for 10 national pavilions including those of Saudi Arabia, Israel, Greece, Spain, the UK, ADACH… Elsewhere in Venice she followed the Axel Vervoordt projects in the Fortuny Palazzo, from the conception of Art Tempo in 2007 until TRA: Edge of Becoming in 2011. After creating the international Symposium A2B, Architecture to Basel in 2001, for the Messe Basel Swissbau, Finders continued to follow a part of her career linked to architecture by working on the strategy and campaign for the Aga Khan Architecture Award and for the Mies Award. Between 2011 and 2014, she was part of the Rem Koolhaas team at OMA/AMO as Director of the Cultural and Creative Council, developing a project with and for the Galeries Lafayette and Lafayette Anticipation (Foundation Strategy and Building, a number of exhibitions and new kinds of typology), as well as for Audi, the 360 Mall in Koweit, and the AMO Workshops, amongst others.

Fredi Fischli

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Fredi Fischli (b. 1986) and Niels Olsen (b. 1989) are Zurich-based curators and Directors of gta Exhibitions at ETH Zurich. Together, they founded the exhibition space STUDIOLO and the STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey publication series. They have curated numerous exhibitions, including 69/96 (with Bob Nickas) at the Gebert Foundation, Keiichi Tanaami at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, Friedrich Kuhn at Herald St in London, and The Log-O-Rithmic at GAMeC Bergamo. Their recent publications include Ashley Bickerton – Susie, William Leavitt: The Particles, and Trix and Robert Haussmann. They also write the recurring "Pioneers" column for Kaleidoscope magazine.

Tony Gatlif

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Tony Gatlif is a filmmaker, scriptwriter, composer, actor and producer. After a childhood in Algiers, Tony Gatlif arrived in France in 1960. In 1966, he met the actor Michel Simon, what will lead his career to the performing arts. Gatlif have made more than 20 movies, has been rewarded in several prestigious festivals such as Cannes Film Festival, César Awards and was distinguished with the Legion of Honor for his outstanding work.

Lisa Garnier

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Lisa Garnier, naturalist, ecologist and scientific journalist specialising in biodiversity, shares with us her vision of our links with other life forms, from which we have deliberately cut ourselves off, but from which we still have many lessons to learn. Lisa Garnier has a Doctorate in ecology and is a specialist in biodiversity and a former journalist. She has written several books as well as carried out numerous investigations and reports for the magazine Ushuaïa Nature and for the global expedition Tara Oceans. Committed to the cause of biodiversity, she has been involved with the UNESCO Man & the Biosphere Programme and worked in the Ministry for Sustainable Development and the National Museum of Natural History, where she developed a number of participatory projects and edited the blog recording observations of nature by the general public, Vigie-Nature (Nature Watch). Never far from the plant world, which is her inspiration, she appeared as a botanist expert in the nature programmes of the television channel Ushuaïa and also in the series The Secrets of Wild Flowers for Arte. Today she is working in a major industrial corporation (RTE) where she continues to address the subject of the diversity of living beings.

Julien Grain

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Julien Grain is an astrophysicist and cosmologist at the Institute of Space Astrophysics (CNRS – National Centre for Scientific Research – and the Paris University at Saclay). After his doctorate at Grenoble in 2006 on the subject of Black Holes, he directed his research towards the essential physics of the universe as well as the study of traces of luminosity from the Big Bang. This research was initially carried out in the AstroParticle & Cosmology Laboratories, and later at the Institute of Space Astrophysics which he joined in 2008. Julien Grain has published over fifty papers of academic research. He is the author, with A. Barrau, of a pedagogic paper on Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (Dunod), and he contributed to the collective work The Form and Origin of the Universe (Dunod). Finally, he has taken part in numerous events for the vulgarisation of science, both in the written press (For Science, The Elephant), on the radio (The Scientific Method), or during events such as the Science Festival.

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Joe Halligan

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Assemble Assemble is a multi-disciplinary collective working across architecture, design and art. Founded in 2010 to undertake a single self-built project, Assemble has since delivered a diverse and award-winning body of work, whilst retaining a democratic and co-operative working method that enables built, social and research-based work at a variety of scales, both making things and making things happen.

Momoyo Kaijima

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Momoyo Kaijima (b.1969, Tokyo) graduated from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women’s University in 1991. She founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto in 1992. In 1994 she received her master degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. During 1996-97 she was a guest student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 2000 she completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She has served at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2000, currently as an associate professor (2009-). Since 2017 she has been serving as a Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ. While engaging in design projects of houses, public buildings, and station plazas, she has conducted numerous investigations of the city through architecture, such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture. She was the curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architectural Biennale. Source: MCH (https://www.mchmaster.com/faculty/momoyo-kaijima/)

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Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

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Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux is a Philosopher and Associate Researcher at the Paris 8 Faculty’s Laboratory for Studies and Research on Contemporary Logic and Philosophy. She is the author of African Philosophies (Présence africaine, 2013), awarded the Louis Marin Overseas Sciences Prize, and she co-directed the book Law and Colonisation (Bruylant, 2005). Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux is the scientific curator of the Fabrique de Souza – Cameroun (the de Souza Factory in the Cameroun), a place of investigation and experimentation which brings together scientists, artists, young entrepreneurs, jurists and farmers, so as to design and put into practice an active utopia, where the Human is thought of in terms of its relationship with other Living Beings. A former editor of the cultural pages of Jeune Afrique, Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux currently works as a journalist with Le Monde.

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Jakob Kudsk Steensen

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Jakob Kudsk Steensen was in residence at LUMA Arles from january to june 2020.

Born in 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Jakob Kudsk Steensen is an artist who works on environmental narratives through 3D animations and immersive sound installations. He creates poetic interpretations of little-known natural phenomena by collaborating with field biologists, composers and writers. His projects are based on in-depth fieldwork. His collaborators include composer and musical director of the Philip Glass Ensemble Michael Riesman, ornithologist and author Douglas H. Pratt, architect Sir David Adjaye OBERA, BTS, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Natural History Museum in London. Kudsk Steensen's work has recently been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Serpentine Galleries in London, PinchukArtCentre, MATADERO in Madrid, Tranen Contemporary Art Center, Pylon-Hub, SXSW at BRIC in Brooklyn, the 5th Trondheim Biennial of Art and Technology, the Carnegie Museum, MAXXI in Rome, FRIEZE in London, and OK Corral, among other institutions and festivals. Kudsk Steensen was recently artist-in-residence at LUMA Arles, where he documented phenomena linked to algae and crystallisation in the Camargue delta.

Matthieu Leglise

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Matthieu Léglise is an art historian specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting. His research has focused on the reception and interpretation of modern art, with particular attention to the work and legacy of Édouard Manet.

In 2018, he earned a PhD from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne with a dissertation titled Manet après Manet : le spectre du moderne (1900–1960), which examines the critical and visual reception of Manet’s work in the twentieth century.

Léglise has worked at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), where he has served as Cultural Development Officer and Scientific Assistant to the Director General. In this capacity, he has contributed to the institution’s cultural programming and development. Together with Victor Claass, he was involved in the programming of INHA’s 20th-anniversary celebrations in 2021–2022.

His work also includes a significant editorial dimension. Léglise is co-editor-in-chief of Perspective. Actualité en histoire de l’art, alongside Marine Kisiel. Published by INHA, the journal focuses on current international research in art history. He has co-edited several issues, including Transports (2022-1) and Raconter (2022-2), and has contributed to the editorial direction of the issue Autonomie (2024-1).

Léglise has also worked in the field of exhibitions. In 2016, he served as curator of the exhibition “Moses, Figures of a Prophet,” presented at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.

His research and professional activities lie at the intersection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art history, the reception of artworks, scholarly publishing, cultural programming, and institutional development.

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Grégoire Loïs

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Grégoire Loïs is Deputy Director of Vigie-Nature (Nature Watch), and proposes his naturalist’s interpretation of the living environment. He is opposed to all value judgments in our comprehension of Nature which, in his view, is neutral and does not grant a key role to Humanity. Passionate about Nature since his childhood, Grégoire Loïs went to work at the Natural History Museum almost 25 years ago. He has mainly worked on development and the promotion of naturalist participatory sciences, with a seven-year break at the European Agency for the Environment. He is proud to have transmitted passion, curiosity and empathy for living creatures to his two children and will continue to do so with his grandchildren. His book “What Birds Can Tell Us” has just been published in paperback.

Sophie Marinopoulos

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Sophie Marinopoulos is a Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, specialising in issues relating to childhood and the family, and is the author of a Ministerial Report on a National Strategy for a Healthy Culture, as well as of numerous books on the family. She is the Co-Founder, together with Henri Trubert, of the publisher, Les Liens qui Libèrent.

Niels Olsen

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Magali Payen

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Magali Payen, expert in citizens’ campaigning, shares with us the history and commitments of her new climate movement: On est prêt ! (We are ready!), led by almost one hundred web creators with the aim of raising awareness and changing and re-thinking our patterns of consumption for a sustainable future. After her studies at the ESCP-EAP (European School of Management) and at HEC Paris (School of Advanced Commercial Studies), Magali Payen moved into cinema production. She worked with the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, on a biographical project before joining Canal +. Her job there involves finance and strategy for the Cinema Division, and she is also participating in the development of StudioCanal in China and of Canal OTT, and is in charge of integrating the Studio Bagel productions within the company. Finally, she works in Canal + Production Management and is joining Olivier Courson to work on the creation of a European cinema studio. Today she is putting her experience and her address book at the service of SAS Imagine 2050 and the On est prêt ! Association, for whom she wants to develop programmes that will both inspire and have an impact. She recently launched the campaign On est prêt ! (We’re Ready!) with about a hundred other creators prepared to commit to climate issues. She is also the main supporter and co-producer of the video used to promote the “L’Affaire du Siècle” Petition (“The Century’s Main Issue” climate justice petition).

Philippe Parreno

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Philippe Parreno studied at École des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, and Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He lives and works in Paris, France. Parreno is a French artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s, earning critical acclaim for his work that spans a diversity of media, including film, sculpture, drawing, and text. Parreno radically redefined the exhibition experience by taking the exhibition itself as a medium and placing its construction at the heart of his process. Exploring the possibilities of the exhibition as a coherent “object” rather than as a collection of individual works makes it into a true open space, a format that differs on each occasion, and a frame for things to appear and disappear. Parreno conceives his exhibitions as a scripted space where a series of events unfolds. He seeks to transform the exhibition visit into a singular experience that plays with spatial and temporal boundaries and the sensory experience of the visitor, who is guided through the space by the orchestration of sound and image. For the artist, the exhibition is less a total work of art than a necessary interdependence that offers an ongoing series of open possibilities.

Paul Graham Raven

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Dr. Paul Graham Raven researches the rhetorics of climate change adaptation for Lund University, where he will start a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from October 2020. His doctoral thesis introduced a relational model of sociotechnical change for exploring the mutual influence of infrastructural systems and social practices, and pioneered the methodology of “narrative prototyping” for sociotechnical transformations.

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese writer. After following the curriculum at the Prytanée Military Academy of Saint-Louis, Sénégal, he pursued his studies in humanities in France – first in a preparatory literary class, then at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. His novel La Cale (The Wedge) received the Stéphane Hessel Prize for Young Franc

Marc-André Selosse

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Marc-André Selosse, biologist, a specialist in botany and mycology, reveals the secrets of the invisible world that connects us all – the world of microbes. The mutual dependency inherent to all living things also invites us to question the way the sciences are organised and calls for a new approach, somewhere at the junction between the different fields of science.

Richard Sennett

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Richard Sennett currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Programme on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT. Over the course of the last five decades, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labour, and social theory. His last book Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2018.

Sophie Swaton

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Sophie Swaton is a Philosopher and Economist and is responsible for research at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne, where she teaches and coordinates the Master in the Principles and Practice of Sustainability. She also presides over the Zoein Foundation, which she created to support initiatives of solidarity in the ecological transition process, both in Switzerland and elsewhere.

Romain Troublé

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General Director of the Tara Ocean Foundation Romain Troublé shares with us the ambition of his foundation to recreate the link between the man and the sea through multidisciplinary encounters between scientists and artists aboard the Tara expedition ship.

Philippe Zaouati

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Philippe Zaouati is Managing Director of Mirova, an asset management company specializing in sustainable investment, which he created within Natixis in 2014, recognized as one of the pioneers of green and sustainable finance. After a career in various financial institutions, including Caisse des Dépôts and Crédit Agricole—where he notably served as an expert in quantitative management, head of international distribution, and head of marketing and communication—he devoted himself for ten years to the development of responsible investment.

LUMA Days #4 / In Transit : A Geography of Change

Practical Information

Conversations

A Crisis of Imagination with Alexandre Cadain

Crisis or Metamorphosis? With Julien Dossier

What Kind of World Do We Live In Today? With Michel Bauwens

A debate on the Echo of Space, Behaviorology, and Strategies of Exhibition Architecture - With Momoyo Kaijima, Fredi Fischli, Petra Blaisse and Niels Olsen

LUMA Arles x Agir pour le vivant

Michel Bauwens

Laurens Bekemans

Caroline Bernard

James Binning

Jean Blaise

Petra Blaisse

Lionel Bordeaux

Alexandre Cadain

Alain Caille

Éric de Chassey

Emanuele Coccia

Ken De Cooman

Laetitia Dosch

Julien Dossier

Emmanuel Druon

Pierre Ducrozet

Philippe Durance

Stéphane Durand

Maria Finders

Fredi Fischli

Tony Gatlif

Lisa Garnier

Julien Grain

Joe Halligan

Momoyo Kaijima

Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Matthieu Leglise

Grégoire Loïs

Sophie Marinopoulos

Niels Olsen

Magali Payen

Philippe Parreno

Paul Graham Raven

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Marc-André Selosse

Richard Sennett

Sophie Swaton

Romain Troublé

Philippe Zaouati