Ines Bettencourt da Camara
Ines created Mapa das Ideias with Ana and Daniela in 1999. The company thrives on a holistic and transdisciplinary approach to the fields of Culture, Heritage and Citizenship, focusing on Museums, their visitors and users. Since 2010, they have been leading and collaborating in projects funded by Creative Europe, Erasmus Plus and Horizon 2020. Besides her intense activity in Mapa, Inês is also a Board Member of Culture Action Europe and the head of the 'A Reserva' that focuses on global citizenship, research and community development based upon the arts and heritage. Ines worked as an assistant professor for 18 years and has a never-ending PHD research focused on Museums and social relevance.
Beate Kegler, PhD
Dr. Beate Kegler is a cultural scientist, freelance researcher and scientific author. Her main topic is the research on cultural practice and cultural policy for rural and remote areas. With her agency KULTURKONZEPTE she consults political deciders and associations of participative cultural work in or for rural development. Previously, she spent about 20 years on sociocultural work in rural areas, including working as research associate and substitute professor at the University of Hildesheim until 2020. She has worked on many publications like the European anthology Vital Village. With her family she lives in a not really idyllic small village on the German North Sea Coast. .
Leandro Pisano
Leandro is a curator, writer and independent researcher who is interested in intersections between art, sound and technoculture. The specific area of his research deals with political ecology of rural, marginal and remote territories.
He is founder and director of Interferenze new arts festival (2003) and frequently he is involved in projects on electronic and sound art, conducts presentations, conferences and workshops in different universities or during events related with new media aesthetics, design, sound and territorial regeneration processes in several countries worldwide. He has written articles in several magazines and authored “Nuove geografie del suono. Spazi e territori nell’epoca postdigitale” (2017, Meltemi).
Leandro holds a PhD in Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies from University of Naples and he is Honorary Scientific Fellow in Anglo-American Literature at University of Urbino. He is affiliate member of The Sound Art and Auditory Culture lab (SAAC) of the RMIT-Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s School of Art and is external member of the soundscape research group Paesaggi Sonori at DFA/University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.
http://www.leandropisano.it
Piotr Michalowski
Piotr has an MA in Arts (cultural studies), and an MSci in cultural management, project coordination, fundraising and entrepreneurship. Expert on territorial development and networking. Researcher on the field of culture, international cooperation. Experienced field worker in urban and rural communities. Presently completing Cultural diplomacy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Consultant for national and EU cultural policies. Professional jazz musician and producer. Coordinator in the Cultural Division, City of Wrocław (ECoC 2016). Secretary and Board Member of the European Network of Cultural Centres. Coordinator of the ENCC International Working Group on Territorial Development, gathering experts, animators and policy makers.
