INNOVATIONcreativity

ARTS, EDUCATION & THE ECONOMY

&FOSTERING

MARCH 16-20, 2015PARIS — LYON

CONTACTILANA ADLESONPolicy Program Officer, French-American Foundation—United Statesiadleson@frenchamerican.org, +1 646.588.6782

&FOSTERING

INNOVATIONcreativity MARCH

16-20, 2015PARIS &LYON

For more than ten years, the French-American Foundation, in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture, has organized study tours for cultural professionals to examine priorities and trends in their field of expertise in the other country.

In 2014, the French-American Foundation and the Ministry of Culture are launching a two-year initiative focused on the role that arts and education play in fostering creativity and innovation. The initiative will explore the growing importance of the creative industries in both countries, how the arts are changing in the digital age, and how, in the age of globalization, the education systems, including arts education, of both countries are subsequently evolving. How can culture and the creative industries spur economic growth and innovation? What are the educational models that best develop 21st century skills in a digital and knowledge-based economy? How can the skills of the creative industry workforce be applied to other industries?

The program consists of two study tours every year, one in the United States and one in France, involving French and American experts. The study tours feature a series of meetings with leading professionals that provide a platform for dialogue and exchange by showcasing successful models and innovative approaches to fostering creativity.

For the first year of the program, the study tours will focus on the following themes:• Arts education as a means of developing critical and creative thinking: how can education contribute to a creative economy? • Creative workplaces and investing in human capital: how to train, recruit, attract, and retain a creative workforce.

The program will examine the following:• Impact of art on society and the importance of arts education• Promotion of interdisciplinary studies• Development of links between the “corporate environment” and arts schools and institutions: recruitment, workplace practices, and entrepreneurship

SUSAN CHINExecutive Director, Design Trust for Public Space

Susan Chin, FAIA, leads the Design Trust for Public Space, a nationally recognized model for transforming public space since 1995. She has overseen key projects, such as Five Borough Farm, Making Midtown and Under the Elevated. Prior to joining the Design Trust, Ms. Chin served as Assistant Commissioner for Capital Projects at NYC Department of Cultural Affairs for over 20 years, supporting more than $3 billion in new construction, revitalization and public art projects citywide. Ms. Chin served as Vice President on the American Institute of Architects board, and received numerous awards, including AIA New York State’s 2013 Gold Medal, Loeb Fellowship at Harvard and Distinguished Alumna from Ohio State University.

LANE HARWELLExecutive Director, DanceNYC

Lane Harwell is a nonprofit executive, advocate, educator, and former dancer working to advance mission-driven causes. He is currently Executive Director of Dance/NYC and previously held the senior development position at the arts-wide advocacy organization Alliance for the Arts. A lifelong New Yorker and a product of its creative and social justice sectors, Lane’s history in the arts also includes training at the School of American Ballet and a performance career with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company. He holds a MBA from Columbia Business School, a MA in Performance Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in Philosophy from Princeton University. Lane formerly chaired the Arts Committee at the Municipal Art Society of New York, addressing the role of the arts in advancing livable cities, and currently chairs the Steering Committee for the New York Dance and Performance Awards. He is an appointee to the Arts Education Committee of the New York City Department of Education, a panelist for New York State’s Regional Economic Development Councils, and a member of leadership committees for Hunter College, New York Public Library, New York City Arts Coalition, Trust for Governors Island, One Percent for Culture, and Cultural Strategies Initiative. Lane is a French-American Foundation Young Leader and a graduate of Coro New York Leadership Center’s Leadership New York (LNY24). Lane writes on policy and management issues for the Huffington Post.

CHRISTIAN HUBERTChairman of the Board of Directors, Terreform ONE

Christian Hubert is chairman of the board of Terreform ONE, a non-profit design and innovation collaborative based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He is currently developing plans for ONE Lab, an educational program in design and science to start in 2016. Mr. Hubert is trained as an architect and is known for his exhibition designs and his work for prominent artists and galleries. He teaches courses on Design and Ethics at the New School and has translated a number of books on architecture, art, and philosophy from French to English.

DEBERA JOHNSONFounder and Executive Director, Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator

Deb is a serial academic-entrepreneur-designer.• Founder, Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator• Founder, Partnership for Academic Leadership in Sustainability• Founder, Center for Sustainable Design Strategies (CSDS)• Founder, Pratt Design Incubator• Chair, Pratt Industrial Design Department

SHEETAL PRAJAPATIAssistant Director, Learning and Artists Initiatives, The Museum of Modern Art

Sheetal Prajapati is a museum and arts professional with over 13 years of field experience and currently serves as the Assistant Director for Learning and Artists Initiatives at The Museum of Modern Art (New York). In this newly developed role in the department of education, Sheetal spearheads new initiatives and programs, exploring experimental pedagogical strategies for learning and public engagement. Her practice at MoMA includes artist collaborations, field research, and process-oriented interpretation.

Sheetal has served in advisory and consulting capacities for institutions across the United States including the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (California), the American Alliance of Museums (Washington D.C), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Texas), and the Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey) amongst others. She regularly sits on grant panels for a range of institutions including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Washington D.C.), Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (Ohio), The Joyce Foundation (Illinois) and the Department of Cultural Affairs in Chicago.Currently, Sheetal is a member of a national consortium of advisors for Open Engagement, an annual international conference on art and social practice. With artist Ariana Jacob, she has curated the conversation series for the 2014 and upcoming 2015 conference. She was an invited teaching artist in residence at the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India in November and December 2014 and is currently developing an artist book based on her time there. Sheetal has spoken and led workshops at national conferences and institutions on topics including art education, audience development, social practice, creative pedagogy, management, and career development. Prior to her position at MoMA, she was the Director of Educational Programs at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois). Sheetal earned her MA in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA in History and Gender Studies from Northwestern University.

PARTICIPANTS

MARCH 16Monday9:30—10 AMPREPARATORY SESSION

The group will meet for an introductory session to discuss themes of the Arts & Innovation program. Program organizers will provide participants with an introduction to Paris and Lyon and address any logistical questions.

10 AM—12 PMPUBLIC STRATEGIES AND POLICIES IN THE FIELD OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

The Ministry of Culture and Communication’s mission is to make the major works of humanity, notably those of France, accessible to the general public. To accomplish this mission, the Ministry leads policy pertaining to historic preservation in France and promotes French cultural heritage in all its components, the creation of artwork, and the development of artistic practices and education. The Ministry also oversees various initiatives to grow and promote the global influence of French culture and artistic creation, as well as the French language. www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr

The DDEEES (Direction du développement économique, de l’emploi et de l’enseignement supérieur, “Direction of Economical Development, Employment and Higher Education”) is in charge of the management of the programs at the city and département levels implemented in the fields of economic development, employment, professional training, higher education and research. The DDEEES is now supervising the development of 7 business incubators and 29 business hosting spaces or business centers, and financially supports the development of 5 incubators. Through an online workspace exchange, the DDEEES offers access to different kinds of premises, for a total amount of about 10 000 m², available to small businesses, trades, licensed professionals. www.paris.fr

Plaine Commune is the first urban conglomeration born within a dense urban environment. Located on the doorstep of Paris, between La Défense and Roissy, identified and recognised as “Land of creation”, Plaine Commune is one of the ten centres for the development of the Greater Paris. With the EPCI status (Public establishment of inter-communitarian cooperation), Plaine Commune brings together nine towns of the Seine-Saint-Denis: Aubervilliers, Épinay-sur-Seine, L’Île-Saint-Denis, La Courneuve, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen, Stains, Villetaneuse. 404 000 inhabitants live on 5 000 hectares: half of the surface area of Paris. www.plainecommune.fr

Ministry of Culture and Communication

JEAN-PHILIPPE MOCHONHead of Legal and International Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Communication

CAROLE ALEXANDREDeputy Head of Department for Higher Education, Service for the Coordination of Cultural Policies and Innovation, Ministry of Culture and Communication

FRANÇOIS MOREAUHead of Innovation and Businesses, Paris City Direction of Economical Development, Employment and Higher Education

MARIE-PIERRE BOUCHAUDYPolicy Officer for the Integration of Culture in the Development of the Grand Paris, Plaine Commune

2-3 PMPROMOTING CREATIVITY AND SOCIALIZATION THROUGH MUSIC

Démos (Dispositif d’Education Musicale et Orchestrale à vocation Sociale, “music and orchestra education program with a social purpose”) is a program of cultural democratization focused on the practice of music in an orchestra. This nationwide program, coordinated by the Cité de la musique, targets children and teenagers from the various neighbourhoods were inhabitants do not always have the economic, social or cultural resources to discover and practice classical music in the existing institutions. www.projetdemos.fr

Created in 1997 by Zahia Ziouani, conductor and et music director, the Orchestre Symphonique Divertimento is a symphonic ensemble gathering 70 musicians from the Seine-Saint-Denis département, Paris and the Ile-de-France region. Since 2005, the Orchestre Symphonique Divertimento has been ensemble in residence in the city of Stains and since 2011 in the Espace Paul Eluard, Seine-Saint-Denis. www.orchestredivertimento.com

La Philharmonie aims to be a new cultural hub with something for everyone. From international to local artists, amateur musicians to music lovers – everyone is invited to take part in the adventure. It has been designed as a welcoming place of exchange and sharing, with high artistic standards and the core mission of reaching out to new audiences, for the exploration of both existing repertories and musical creation – in classical music, dance, jazz, world music and contemporary music. www.philharmoniedeparis.fr

Philharmonie de Paris

GILLES DELEBARREManager of educational and learning activities, Démos, Philarmonie de Paris

ZAHIA ZIOUANIConductor, Orchestre Divertimento; artistic director for Démos

PARIS

MARCH 17Tuesday9—11 AMFINANCING INNOVATION AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Bpifrance, a public investment bank, finances businesses from the seed phase to transfer to stock exchange listing, through loans, guarantees and equity. Bpifrance accompanies firms developing export activities, in partnership with UBIFRANCE and Coface, other public structures, and provides support to their innovation projects. Bpifrance offers businesses the benefit of a powerful contact, one who is on hand and able to respond efficiently to their financing needs, during every step of their development. Bpifrance, whose two equal shareholders are the French State and the Deposits and Consignment Fund (Caisse des Dépôts), acts in support of public policy established by the State and the Regions. www.bpifrance.fr

Bpifrance

NICOLAS PARPEXInvestment Director, Bpifrance

11:30 AM—1 PMEXPERIMENTATION: MIXING SCIENCE, DESIGN AND ART

Created in 2011, La Paillasse is a place of interdisciplinary exchanges that, without conditions of age, diploma or salary level, offer the legal and ethical frame for the development and implementation of open source projects based on unpatentable techniques. Its missions : open science, collective intelligence and promotion, going public and tutoring. The horizontal collaboration of a great number of people in an interdisciplinary space and the promotion of expertise are key to development. In order to facilitate the promotion of knowledge, La Paillasse uses tools such as open source licences, voluntarism, and meritocracy. La Paillasse aims at helping its project leaders in their development and facilitate their autonomy, in order to contribute to the long term strenghthening of the economic and entrepreneurial interlinkages. Reaching such a goal needs, among other things, the reinforcement of a sustainable environment facilitating this breakthrough on technical and social terms. www.lapaillasse.org

La Paillasse

MARC FOURNIERCo-founder, La Paillasse

HACENE LAHRECHE Chief Operating Officer, La Paillasse

2:30—4:30 PMPLACES FOR CULTURE(S) IN THE DIGITAL AGE

La Gaîté lyrique is the place for cultures in the digital age. You are all invited to come and visit an exhibition, attend a concert, have a drink, play a video game, and experience la Gaîté lyrique as a place that studies the present and imagines the future. At the crossroads of creative expression, innovation and digital cultures, it transcends genres to explore contemporary music, the visual arts, cinema, games, design, the web... A place of exchange and discovery in the heart of Paris, it prepares the way for new art forms, reflects the excitement of tomorrow, and also hosts the biggest cultural entrepreneur residency program in France. www.gaite-lyrique.net

La Gaîté Lyrique

JÉRÔME DELORMAS Chief Executive Officer, La Gaîté lyrique

5:30—7 PMCREATIVE WORKSPACES

Remix is an open, caring community of entrepreneurs and creatives. As visionary, passionate and demanding people, they create their own success models in the heart of the three workspaces owned by Remix in Paris. Remix Coworking was founded on care and breaking down the boundaries. Remix is an actor in the link economy. Exchanging, sharing and solidarity are the daily mottoes of the company. Remix Coworking is a lab where new ways of working, thinking and reaching success emerge. Gathering 50% of entrepreneurs (startups, small caompanies, solopreneurs) and 50% of independant creatives (artistic directors, webdesigners, illustrators, photographs, film directors, screenwriters) at Remix co-working, every new conversation is a source of energy and inspiration. www.remixcoworking.com

Remix Coworking

HANANE EL JAMALI Chief Executive Officer, Remix Coworking

8:30 PMEXIT / EXIST GREGORY MAQOMA - VUYAMI DANCE THEATRE

The play Exit/Exist, already acclaimed at the Abbesses Theater in the spring of 2013, is returning, and the Théâtre de la Ville is organizing a major tour. Gregory Maqoma is gifted with one of the strongest temperaments of the rich South African choreographic scene, with his broad shoulders and crystal clear body language. His solo owes a great deal to drama, singing, music and video. The artist conjures up the memory of one of his ancestors, an 18th century rebel Khosa chief, who died in jail. His distant descendant steps into this today on stage as if he were entering a time machine. This living history lesson is impressive. But beyond the changes of costumes, accessories, and rituals, this stripping off of time, layer by layer, disregards all confinement in an unequivocal lineage. It reveals the dancing body as being always animated by a multitude of bodies, unfolded before our eyes. A very contemporary idea of composite identity. www.theatredelaville-paris.com/aux-abbesses

Théâtre des Abbesses

PARIS

MARCH 18Wednesday9—10:30 AMFINANCING INNOVATION: STARTUPS

The Family nurtures entrepreneurs through education, unfair advantages and capital. The Family is a long term, strategic & minority shareholder. We have multiple activities but a single mission: empowering entrepreneurs in their quest for a repeatable, scalable & profitable business model. Although its form is corporate, its attitude is partnership. The Family is a black swan factory building unpredictable & non linear businesses. The Family wants to be the market leader of innovation-driven value creation in France. The money importance decreases in venture business, added value through relevant services is becoming the key. However, capital stays the best way to align the interest of multiple parties. The Family puts money, where the talents are, obliviating the boundaries. Entrepreneurs educate us and each other in turn. From this exchange, a doctrine emerges. Coworking spaces are not the source of innovation, the people inside are. Mentoring is just another name for paternalization & derisking. Entrepreneurs must be let absolutely free in order ro grow up correctly, healthily and awesomely. The fellowship is th centerpiece of our family. Membership inside our family is a clear meritocracy. It is not time-based: you never leave the family, unless we kick you out. Partying is a serious matter. We are proud barbarians. No conflict, no interest.www.thefamily.com

The Family

ALICE ZAGURYChief Executive Officer, co-founder, The Family

NICOLAS COLINCo-founder, The Family

11 AM—12:30 PMTHE ARTIST AS AN ENTREPRENEUR? BEING AN ARTIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY

With a marked taste for metamorphosis, sublimation, and transmutation, Jean-Michel Othoniel (born on January 27, 1964 in Saint-Étienne and works in Paris) shows a fondness for materials with reversible properties. He started out, at the beginning of the 1990s, with works made out of wax or sulfur, showing them at the Kassel Documenta by 1992. A turning point in his output came the following year when he started using glass. Working with the finest glassmakers in Murano and Basel ever since, he explores the properties of a material that subsequently became a hallmark of his work. On March 12, 2015, Jean-Michel Othoniel will open a new exhibit, Secret Flower Sculptures, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, that will then travel to San Francisco in Autumn. In May 2015, the artist will reveal Les Belles Danses, three fountain sculptures installed on the ponds of the new Water Theatre grove created by the landscape designer Louis Benech. It will be the first permanent commission in the gardens of the Palace since Louis XVI. www.othoniel.com

Studio Othoniel

JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL Artiste

2-4 PMANCIENS SAVOIR FAIRE ET CRÉATION CONTEMPORAINE DANS LE PATRIMOINE

Heir to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, the Mobilier national provides the furnishing of the official palaces of the Republic and the various presidential residences. Reserved for institutions that serve the national interest, these deposits are limited to reception pieces, after the consideration of the application by the Control Committee of the Mobilier national. This committee is traditionally chaired by a magistrate of the Court of Audit. The Elysée Palace, hôtel Matignon, various France embassies abroad, and also the reception spaces for international summits outside of Paris, are all places that are furnished largely owing to the collections of the Mobiler national. These arrangements are intended to enhance the prestige of France and its major institutions. At the core of the missions of the Mobilier national, is the safeguarding and development of the collections. www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr

Manufacture des Gobelins

MARC BAYARD Artistic and Cultural Advisor, le Mobilier national

4:30-6 PMPRODUCTION CONDITIONS FOR CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

Usine IO accompanies individuals and project initiators from prototyping to production. Usine IO offers infrastructures (access to machines and to offices and co-working spaces) and technical consulting services (industrialization, prototyping, distribution...). The management is handled by a multi-disciplinary team of technicians (Experts in Methods et Industrialization, Electronics and Computer Design, Workshop Managers) at the disposal of the members to accompany them in the realization of their ideas. Usine IO’s infrastructures and services are accessible through a monthly or annual subscription. www.usine.io

Usine IO

AGATHE FOURQUET Co-founder, Usine IO

PARIS

MARCH 19Thursday

LYON9:30—10:30 AMLA SUCRIÈRE AND THE STAR-WARS IDENTITIES EXHIBITION: A GUIDED TOUR

Intervening on behalf of a large range of institutional and private companies in France and worldwide, GL events’ mission is to assist companies, institutions, and event organisers at every stage of the process from the definition of their event strategies to final implementation in the field. Providing a base for this global coverage, the Group has operations on all five continents in more than 19 countries. Listed in Segment B of NYSE-Euronext Paris, with revenue of 809.1 M€ in 2013 (51% from international markets), it has 3,976 employees, more than 90 locations worldwide, 40 venues (La Sucrière included) under management (with a combined public access area of more than 1 million sq.m), more than 4,000 events staged and more than 11 millions visitors and exhibitors. www.gl-events.com

La Sucrière is an exceptional venue. Thanks to its adaptability, the venue is perfect for hosting concerts: electronic music, variety shows, up-and-coming musicians, etc. La Sucrière is also a leading venue for art and cultural exhibitions. It has a rich programme of international exhibitions and hosts the Lyon Biennial Art festival every two years and the Nuits Sonores. Built in the 1930s on the docks of Lyon Confluence, this former sugar warehouse on the banks of the Saône River is more than 80 years old. It was given a new lease of life in 2003 with the arrival of the Biennial Contemporary Art Exhibition, which is acknowledged as one of the most important in Europe. Today, La Sucrière has been completely renovated and is one of the only historic buildings remaining in the Lyon Confluence area. As such, the building has become a flagship symbol of the district! www.lasucriere-lyon.com

La Sucrière

DAMIEN RIVOIREDirector of Operations for all of the Lyon sites of the GL events Group

ISAURE RODETManager of La Sucrière

CLAIRE COURIOLManager for Artistic and Cultural Activity, La Sucrière

10:30 AM – 12:30 PMROUND TABLE – A TERRITORIAL APPROACH: THE INSTITUTION-AL LANDSCAPE OF GRAND LYON

La Sucrière

LA SUCRIÈRE www.lasucriere-lyon.comDamien Rivoire, Isaure Rodet and Claire Couriol

LE SUCRE ROOFTOP CULTURE & CLUB AT LA SUCRIÈRE www.le-sucre.euFrédérique Joly (administrator), François Pirola (Deputy Vice-President at the European Lab forum) and Cédric Dujardin (Director of Operations)

BERTRAND MUNIN www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Regions/Drac-Rhone-AlpesGeneral Secretary, DRAC Rhône-Alpes

MICHEL ROTTERDAM www.grandlyon.comDirector of Culture, Métropole de Lyon (Grand Lyon)

XAVIER FOURNEYRON www.lyon.frDeputy Managing Director for Culture, Heritage and Student Life, City of Lyon

NICOLAS MILLET www.lyon.cci.frDirector of Industrial and Territorial Development, Rhône-Alpes Chamber of Commerce and Industry

2:30-5:30 PMGUIDED TOUR – LES SUBSISTANCES ROUND TABLE – THE GRAND LYON CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS

CATHY BOUVARDDeputy Director, Les Subsistances

GUY WALTER Director, Les Subsistances and La Villa Gillet

EMMANUEL TIBLOUX Director, ENSBA Lyon

GÉRY MOUTIER Director, CNSMDL

ALTER Director, Les Su

CLAIRE HÉBERT Deputy Director, CNSMDL

ABDELKADER DAMANIProject Director, Biennale de Lyon

Les Subsistances

MARCH 19Thursday

LYON

Les Subsistances are an international, transdisciplinary laboratory for artistic creation dedicated to the new languages of the performing arts (dance, theatre, circus, etc.). They give artists a place to work, create, experiment, and dialogue with the public. They offer artists space and time as residents, as well as intellectual, administrative, technical and financial assistance adapted to each project. Les Subsistances develop a mentoring relationship with the artists and companies they invite, providing support not only to present the performance, but also to disseminate it. Les Subsistances are developing a new relationship with the public. They foster confrontation, reflection, artistic practice, and dialogue. They are inventing new ways to meet, making the public a partner in each stage of creation: creative construction sites, discussions, participatory projects, creative Week-Ends, and artistic workshops. Les Subsistances also develop projects with businesses. Les Subsistances are a stakeholder in several national and international networks, in particular in the area of the performing arts (A space for live art) and circus arts (Territoires de cirque). Les Subsistances are a heritage site with a rich history. Today it combines the International Laboratory for Artistic Creation dedicated to theatre, dance, and contemporary circus, and the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. http://www.les-subs.com

The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (ENSBA Lyon / Lyon School of Fine Arts) trains artists and creators. It was designed as a research and experimentation laboratory, deliberately open to the contemporary artistic reality. Its goal is to train creative personalities who can follow different paths within the wide spectrum of their discipline and it aims to realize the conditions for high-level professionalization. The diplomas issued are national diplomas. After a first year of initiation to fundamental knowledge, the student can choose between two long options, art and design, and two short options in Graphic Design and Textile Design. http://www.ensba-lyon.fr

The Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon (CNSMDL) offers carefully selected students a privileged learning environment in which they are guided towards the mastery of their art and permanent creativity. The ideals it encourages are a humanist vision of the world and artistic sensitivity in its diverse forms. The challenges of stage and concert performance, together with the cross-fertilisation due to the variety of the students’ previous experience are skilfully exploited by the distinguished teaching staff. Everything is aimed at stimulating the artistic vocation of the students and ensuring that the influences to which they are exposed go far beyond the frontiers of France. http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr

8:30 PMPLEXUS -LE TOBOGGAN THEATRE

Dance is a gate to the invisible: Aurélien Bory develops a “physical theatre”, a singular hybrid, a blend of many disciplines. He is also interested in dance, creating women’s portraits, such as Kaori Ito’s in his solo Plexus. This piece is performed in a very restricted space, crisscrossed with obstacles, which constitutes the frame of a very moving portrait, relinquished to the shadow that animates it. There, dance, a gate to the invisible, could open onto to the typically Japanese idea of disappearance.

Le Toboggan

MARCH 20Friday

LYON-PARIS9:30 AM — 12:30 PMINNOVATIVE ACTIVITY CLUSTER FOR IMAGE, SOUND, AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

A pole for new activities of the image, sound and creative industries, the PIXEL Cluster, located in Villeurbanne in the Lyon metropolitan area, is home to some 100 companies of the cinema, audiovisual, video game, web, and new media sectors on close to 40,000 m². Organized around three studios and 5,000 m² dedicated to filming, it also houses several stores for the rental of equipment (image, light, machinery, communication, etc.), sets for motion capture and green backgrounds, a sound post-production auditorium for cinema, a digital restoration and calibration laboratory and a company hotel for the innovative image, sound and creative industry companies, a film school and a brasserie. Several professional organizations of the Rhône-Alpes Image sector also chose the PIXEL Cluster as their base, such as the Imaginove competitive cluster, the GRAC (consortium of independent cinemas), the CREF (accompaniment of initiators of creative and cultural projects), the SLEC (Syndicat Lyonnais des Exploitants), the Rhône-Alpes Film Commission, the regional fund for coproduction Rhône-Alpes Cinema and its Bureau of authors. http://www.polepixel.fr

Pôle Pixel, Lyon

SÉBASTIEN THOMAS-CHAFFANGEManager, Pôle PIXEL

OLIVIER TOMATManaging Director, IMAGINOVE

3:30 – 6:30 PM CLOSING SESSION

L’Usine IO, Paris

FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE & COMMUNICATIONChristopher Miles , General Secretary; Lucie Muniesa, Deputy General Secretary; Anne Crozat, Deputy Director for European and International Affairs; Jean-Baptiste Cuzin, Head of the Office for International and Multilateral Affairs; Perrine Warmé-Janville, Policy Officer for the Americas

FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION—UNITED STATESEmma Archer, Program Coordinator

MAISON DES CULTURES DU MONDEArwad Esber, Director; Aimée Pollard , Administrator

FRENCH PARTICIPANTS TO THE STUDY TOUR TO NEW YORK CITY, DECEMBER 2014Marie-Pierre Bouchaudy, Policy Officer for the Integration of Culture in the Development of the Grand Paris; Vanina Géré, Professor of Art History & Theory at the National Superior School of Art of Nancy; Jakob Haesler, Startup Entrepreneur; Margaret Iragui Lejeune, Professor at the Camondo School of Interior & Product Design / Interior Designer; Sophie Pene, Sociolinguist / Anthropologist of Digital Practices / Professor at Paris Descartes University / Former Head of research at the ENSCI School of Design, Paris

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Capital of France and nation’s largest city

Paris population: 2.34 million

Metropolitan area population: 10.5 million

Paris area: 105.4 square kilometres 40.7 square miles

Metropolitan area: 12,012 square kilometers4,638 square miles

Capital of France’s Rhône-Alpes region

France’s third largest city and second largest metropolitan area

Lyon population: 491,268

Metropolitan area population: 2.2 million

Lyon area: 1,177.75 square kilometers 454.73 square miles

Metropolitan area: 6,018.62 square kilometers 2,323.80 square miles

INNOVATIONcreativity

The French-American Foundation—United States and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication have organized a series of reciprocal professional study tours focusing on various cultural aspects of society, dating back to 1998. Past study tours have focused on urban sustainability, philanthrophy and the financing of culture, the administration and modernization of cultural institutions, historic preservation and cultural heritage, arts education, and digital publishing.

COURANTS EXCHANGESOF CULTURAL ADMINISTRATORS

Founded in 1976 and building on more than two centuries of shared ideals between France and the United States, the French-American Foundation—United States works to enrich a transatlantic relationship that is essential in today’s world. With its sister foundation, the French-American Foundation – France, the Foundation brings together leaders, policymakers, and a wide range of professionals to exchange views and share experiences in areas of mutual concern for mutual benefit.

The Foundation addresses several current policy issues including education; immigration; security and defense; business and the economy; energy and the environment; urban development and renewal; health care; and cultural policy. Programs include its signature Young Leaders program, conferences, high-level professional exchanges, and study tours for leaders in government, business, academia, media, and culture, creating a rich network of people and ideas for action.

frenchamerican.org

FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION UNITED STATES

The Ministry of Culture and Communication’s mission is to make the major works of humanity, notably those of France, accessible to the general public. To accomplish this mission, the Ministry leads policy pertaining to historic preservation in France and promotes French cultural heritage in all its components, the creation of artwork, and the development of artistic practices and education. The Ministry also oversees various initiatives to grow and promote the global influence of French culture and artistic creation, as well as the French language.

culturecommunication.gouv.fr

FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE & COMMUNICATION

The Maison des Cultures du Monde (World Cultures Institute) was created in 1982 to promote cultural and artistic exchanges between France and other countries across the globe. As the key organisation in France for intangible cultural heritage, it seeks to protect cultural diversity and the expression of cultural identities through raising awareness and encouraging respect for difference, promoting the various forms of performing arts and the intangible cultural heritage that they represent, documenting and recording rare and endangered music.

www.maisondesculturesdumonde.org

MAISON DES CULTURES DU MONDE