Laetitia Manach, Director
Laetitia is a director and team leader of international projects in the public and the non profit sector.
She has worked for about ten years for the British Council, in France as Head of Arts, then in the headquarters in London as Head of EU Partnerships, gaining an excellent track record of achieving ambitious fundraising plans and delivering successful large-scale programmes. Her 20+ years of professional experience in international cooperation has nurtured a solid savoir-faire in conceiving innovative programmes responding to challenging contexts and engaging with various stakeholders.
She is currently studying an MSc at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL) in Environment and Sustainable Development in the Global South, strengthening her expertise in climate and environmental justice.
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.