Laetitia Manach, Director
Laetitia is a director and team leader of international projects in the public and non-profit sectors. She is currently based in Istanbul, where she works at GIZ, the Federal German Development Agency, leading an EU Technical Assistance project for the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology.
Her 20+ years of professional experience in international cooperation, working for the British Council, NGOs and on multiple EU projects, has nurtured a solid savoir-faire in conceiving and managing large-scale innovative programmes responding to challenging contexts, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. With a background in the cultural sector and the creative economy and an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Bartlett-University College London (UCL), she brings vertical expertise at the intersection of creativity and ecology.
Fabien Fabre, Consultant
With a background as an engineer, Fabien has been in charge of development and cooperation projects in the cultural and non-profit economy sector since 2002.
Twenty years of professional activity in the cultural sector, the social economy, and territorial and international projects have allowed him to acquire various skills and experiment with multiple approaches.
He has a particular interest in the following areas: digital technologies and the empowerment they induce for their users, collective approaches and human organizations, virtuous crossings between actors from various sectors, in cooperation.
He has a solid experience in the bottom-up, community engaging creative processes. He provides a combination of expertise across the entire value chain of a cooperation project: design, operational implementation, and raising public or private funds.
Dr Liza Griffin, Associate
Liza is an associate professor of Environmental Politics at in the Development Planning Unit, Bartlett, University College London (UCL).
Her research makes contributions to the disciplines of geography, planning and politics in ways that engage publics, inform policy, produces impactful outcomes and are theoretically informed and innovative.
Her research focuses on resilience; health and spatial politics; and creative practice and environmental politics.
It centrally involves the co-development of an international research collaboration entitled ‘Creative Practice and the Anthropocene’ (with Professor George Revill at the Open University). This network explores how publicly engaged arts-based thinking and practice can intervene productively in the current environmental crisis. It encompasses creative outputs, engagements with artists and publics and publications and concerns how creative practices like community-led like song making or fictional writing can contribute to the social processes required to build resilience against environmental change like flooding.