HOSTED BY ALSERKAL AVENUE GCDN PROGRAM 8-10 APRIL 2018

GCDN Convening | Dubai Alserkal Avenue with excursions to Burj Khalifa Observation Deck, Sharjah Museums, Dubai Opera House, and Louvre Abu Dhabi WELCOME (from sourcing advice toco-commissioning),seven newmembers Island, amyriadofmultilateral contactbetweenmembers a successfulfirstregionalconvening, inProvidence, Rhode publications (onsecurityandstreet furniture, and ongovernance), This lastyearhasseenthepublication oftworesearch We hopeyou’llstayconnected throughGCDNbeyondDubai. social eventsandoutings. solutions tothesechallenges–andfindfurtherinspiration at the you toworkshoptogetherduringthesesessionsfindnew as youplan,build,fundorrunaculturaldistrict.We encourage you shouldfeelcomfortablesharingwhatkeeps youupatnight GCDN conveningsareintimate, ‘closed-door’meetingswhere and thewidercontextofEmiratesArabianGulf. an insightintoboththeiruniquechallengesandopportunities, and willkickoffourconversationswiththeirownstory, givingyou advice. The Alserkalteamhasprovidedourextraordinaryvenue grateful fortheirgenerousanddeeppartnership, wisdomand one ofourdistinguishedmembers,AlserkalAvenue, andare colleagues globally. We aredelighted toco-hostthiseventwith meaningful connectionsandsparknewcollaborationswith This conveningisanopportunity, therefore, forusalltobuild and vibrantspacesforeveryone. develop unlikely alliesandsupportthecreationofmorelivable positively toourqualityoflifeandcities’ economies,butto by thebeliefthatculturalengagementcannotonlycontribute reflect andinspireseemsevermoreimportant. We arebound and culturaluncertainty, thepower ofculturetofindconnections, As theworld’s vertiginousshiftscreatemorepolitical, economic, provides fertilegroundforourdiscussionsandcollaborations. some oftheadverseeffectsrapidurbanization. We hopeit workers andinwardinvestors,animatepublicspacemitigate balance localandglobalculture, drawnewvisitors,knowledge dance. Like manyof your cities,itisengagedwithhowbestto Bedouin heritageandtraditionsofstorytelling,poetry, songand districts andartspaces,buildingonarichculturerootedin development embracesseveralsignificantculturalanddesign and boldambitionmake itacompellingsetting.Thecity’s rapid and flourishingcontemporaryartscene, Dubai’s futuristicappeal Renowned foritsaudaciousarchitecture, spectacularskylines, Providence earlierthisyear. Dubai followsDallas,Montreal,, Brooklyn,Barcelonaand the GlobalCulturalDistrictsNetwork.Ourdazzlinghostcityof We aredelightedtowelcomeyoutheseventhconveningof WELCOME TO

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more fun! Please letusknowhowwecancontinuetoserveyouandhave Deputy DirectorhasmovedtoFranceandnewadventures. transition, asJessicaFerey, ourindefatigable logisticianand a distinguishedcareerattheBritishCouncil;andanimportant our firstfull-timeDirector, Beatrice Pembroke, whojoins us from and ourfirsttwoaffiliatemembers.Ithasalsoseenthearrivalof April 2018 Global CulturalDistrictsNetwork Beatrice Pembroke, Director Adrian Ellis,Chair AGENDA AT A GLANCE The Oberoi,AlA’amal Street, BusinessBay 19:30 |CocktailReception andDinner, sponsoredbyBuroHappold 18:00-19:30 |Break 17:00-18:00 |PublicSession:Artwashing:TheGreatDebate 15:30-17:00 |Tour andSiteVisitofAlserkalAvenue 15:00-15:30 |Report OutfromBreakout Sessions OR Breakout Session B:BeyondBuildings;NewAdventuresinARandVR 13:30-15:00 |Breakout SessionA:Trends inCulturalInfrastructure 12:00-13:30 |Lunch andOpportunitiestoNetwork In Conversation:CulturalHubsintheGulf 10:15-12:00 |MinisterialAddressandPanel Discussion 09:45-10:15 |AlserkalAvenue Story 09:30-09:45 |Welcoming Remarks 09:00-09:30 |Coffee+ Registration Hotel at08:45 Transport: BusesleavefromVidaDowntownat08:30andMetropolitan at 17:45 Transport: BusesleaveVidaDowntownat17:30andMetropolitanHotel The Yard atAlserkalAvenue, 17thSt, hostedbyAlserkalAvenue 18:00-19:30 |Welcome Reception Burj Khalifa,1SheikhMohammedbinRashid Blvd 15:00-17:00 |OptionalTour oftheObservationDeck MONDAY Location: Concrete|AlserkalAvenue, St.17, AlQuoz,Dubai SUNDAY | | APRIL 8 APRIL 9

at 09:00 Transport: BusesleaveVidaDowntown08:15andMetropolitanHotel 19:00 |Dinnerrecommendationstobeprovided 16:30-17:00 |ClosingRemarks fromAdrianEllis Innovation andSustainability 15:15-16:30 |PublicSession:CulturalDistrictsasCatalystsforUrban 15:00-15:15 |Break 14:00-15:00 |GovernanceofCulturalDistricts 12:45-14:00 |NetworkingLunch 12:15-12:45 |Report OutfromBreakout Sessions OR 11:00-12:15 |Breakout SessionC: 10:45-11:00 |Break 09:30-10:45 |AnchorCulturalInstitutionsandtheirSurroundings 08:45-09:15 |CoffeeandGCDNHiveMind:WhatNextforGCDN? 17:00-18:30 |SiteVisitofDubaiOperaHouseandDistrict 11:00-15:00 10:30 TUESDAY |APRIL10 WEDNESDAY |APRIL11 THURSDAY |APRIL12 Location: Concrete|AlserkalAvenue, St.17, AlQuoz,Dubai Breakout SessionD:MeasuringtheImpact;Economic,Social,Cultural |SiteVisitofLouvre AbuDhabi

|SiteVisitofSharjahMuseums Anchor Cultural Institutions, A Deeper Dive AnchorCulturalInstitutions,ADeeperDive (OPTIONAL) (OPTIONAL) SUNDAY | APRIL 8 09:00-09:30 | Coffee 09:30-09:45 | Welcoming Remarks 15:00-17:00 | Optional guided tour of the Observation Deck Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, Founder and Patron, Alserkal Avenue at Burj Khalifa, 1 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Blvd Adrian Ellis, Chair, GCDN and Director, AEA Consulting Beatrice Pembroke, Director, GCDN

AGENDA AGENDA 09:45-10:15 | The Alserkal Avenue Story Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, Founder and Patron, Alserkal Avenue, Vilma Jurkute, Director, Alserkal Avenue

10:15-12:00 | In Conversation: Cultural Hubs in the Gulf Keynote followed by panel discussion There has been significant investment in high profile cultural infrastructure in the Gulf over the past decade – in the UAE, but also Bahrain, Muscat and and more recently in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Many of us hear about the headlines only. This session gives colleagues an opportunity to better understand the (Transport: Buses leave Vida Downtown 17:30 and Metropolitan Hotel at character and motivation behind some of these projects and to 17:45) form a picture of the collective impact of this investment on social 18:00 | Welcome Reception and economic development in the Gulf. The Yard at Alserkal Avenue, St.17, Al Quoz, Dubai Introductory Keynote: H.E. Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Minister Evening: Dinner recommendations to be provided of State, United Arab Emirates Moderator: Antonia Carver, Director, Art Jameel Manal Ataya, Director General, Sharjah Museums Authority Vilma Jurkute, Director, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai MONDAY | APRIL 9 Manuel Rabaté, Director, Louvre Abu Dhabi Location: Concrete, Alserkal Avenue 12:00-13:30 | Networking Lunch Transport: Buses leave from Vida Downtown at 08:30 and Metropolitan Hotel at 08:45 AGENDA Should thefuturelooklike thepast? artists wantorneed?Whatarethedriversbehindinvestment? are gettingitallright.Arewecreatingthespacesaudiencesand This sessionlooksatsomeofthetrendsandaskswhetherwe Cultural InfrastructureIndex.The2017surveyisnowcomplete. for manyyears.In2016,thiswasformalizedintotheannual AEA Consultinghasbeentrackingmoneyspentonartsbuilding Trends inCulturalInfrastructureInvestment Are weBuildingwhatW Annette Mees,HeadofAudience Labs, Royal OperaHouse, London Joel Kremer, KremerMuseumofGoldenAgeDutchArt CAVAD-CBU, SeniorCivicMediaFellowatUSCAnnenberg Dr. BC Biermann, FounderofHeavyProjects,AssociateProfessorat Moderator: BeatricePembroke, Director, GCDN Claire Spencer, ChiefExecutive, ArtsCentre, Daniel Payne, Principal,AEAConsulting Dr. DongYeun Lee, ManagingDirectorofPlatformChang-dong61 Stephen Jolly, HeadofCulturalSector, BuroHappold Ole Bouman,Director, DesignSociety, Shenzhen Moderator: FiammettaRocco, ArtsEditor, TheEconomist to createnewformsofcivicengagement. and explorethepotentialoftechnologiestobroadenaccess developments invirtualandaugmentedrealitypublicspace traditional boundaries.Speakers willdiscusssomeofthelatest possibilities thatnewtechnologiesprovidetogobeyond Cultural organizationseverywherearegrapplingwiththe and VirtualReality Beyond Buildings:NewAdventuresinA BREAKOUT SESSION B BREAKOUT SESSIONA

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and leave hotels at 19:15 for dinner and leavehotelsat19:15fordinner Transport: BusesleaveAlserkalAvenue at18:00toreturnhotels, Mariana DuarteSilva,Co-founder&DirectoratVillageUnderground Lisboa eL Seed,artist Sunny Rahbar, Co-founderofTheThirdLinegallery, AlQuoz(AlserkalAvenue), Kevin McMahon,PresidentandCEO, PittsburghCulturalTrust Executive DirectoroftheLos AngelesCountyArtsCommission Management ProgramatClaremontGraduateUniversity, former Moderator: Laura Zucker, SeniorFellowwiththeMastersinArts Al A’amal Street, BusinessBay, sponsoredbyBuroHappold cropping upandquicklyotherstak flourishes. Galleries,smallshops,restaurantsandcafésstart areas incitiesandasenseofcommunityamongcreatives The storyisoftenthesame:artistsareattractedtoaffordable Artwashing: theGreatDebate parts oftheseneighborhoods? so thatartistsandlong-timeresidentscancontinuetobeintegral consumption apart?Canweensureaffordablelive/workspaces of developmentinawaythatforcesculturalproductionand and whatworks? Whatcanwedotomitigatethepowerfullogic developers, andlocalcommunities? Whatstrategiesareavailable this inevitable? Cancitiesmaintainabalancebetweenartists, being attacked fortheirperceivedroleingentrification.Is Paradoxically, artistsandartsorganizationsnowareincreasingly the localartists,getdisplacedandcyclerepeatsitself. and lessavailablespace. Local communitymembers,including influx inpopulation,newdevelopments,andsoon,higherrents flock tothescene, developersseeopportunities,leadingtorapid PUBLIC SESSION

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10:45-11:00 | Break TUESDAY | APRIL 10 Location: Alserkal Avenue (Transportation will be provided from hotels) 11:00-12:15 BREAKOUT SESSION C Transport: Buses leave at 8:15 from Vida Downtown and 8:30 from Metropolitan Hotel Anchor Cultural Institutions: A Deeper Dive Karen Brooks Hopkins will discuss the international relevance 08:45-09:15 | Coffee and GCDN Hive Mind: What Next for GCDN research project she recently completed on the role that cultural AGENDA AGENDA A discussion of how the network can and should develop over organizations play in the American context as community the next few years to best serve its members: convenings anchors, and what they can potentially learn from the health and (content and form); research (content and form again); facilitation educational sectors, a project she undertook under the aegis of of collaborative projects; co-commissioning; thematic news the Mellon Foundation. aggregation; podcasts…and what technologies and media Moderator: Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Chief Executive, Barbican Centre should we employ in the process. What can we learn from other Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Emerita, Brooklyn Academy of Music / successful networks members participate in? Oh, and Singapore Senior Advisor, Onassis Foundation USA August 2019… Beatrice Pembroke, Director, GCDN 11:00-12:15 Adrian Ellis, Chair, GCDN BREAKOUT SESSION D

09.30-10.45 | Anchor Cultural Institutions Case Study: Measuring the Impact of your Cultural Districts: and Their Surroundings Economic, Social, Cultural It is a lot easier – and cheaper – to talk about measuring impact Anchor cultural institutions have a definitional role within cultural than to do it: so there is a tendency to talk about it instead of districts, but they interpret that in different ways. This session doing it. But evaluating the social, economic and cultural impact will explore the notion of “anchor purpose” and probe different of investment in cultural districts is critical, both to inform future interpretations of responsibilities to surrounding communities and decision-making and to demonstrate value to stakeholders. This beyond. We will investigate strategies for community revitalization session considers current best practice and practical strategies and enhanced destination status that the anchor role confers as for performance measurement for cultural district managers. well as the challenges and obstacles organizations face when they Maxime Jaffré and Elena Raevskikh, Researchers, LUMA Arles impact embrace this interpretation of their mission. Moderator: Angelita Teo, Director, National Museum of Singapore and GCDN Advisory Board member Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Emerita, Brooklyn Academy of Music/Senior Advisor, the Onassis Foundation, USA Zelfira Tregulova, Director, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Bill Bragin, Executive Artistic Director, The Arts Center at New York University, Abu Dhabi AGENDA Nato Thompson,ChiefCurator, PhiladelphiaContemporary para laCiudad,MexicoCity Clorinda Romo, DirectorofPlanningandCreativeProjects, Laboratorio Tate Modern,London Donald Hyslop, HeadofRegeneration andCommunity Partnerships at Bjørnstjerne Director, Placemaking.me Moderator: NadineBitar, ThoughtLeader, Place-led4.0© andExecutive competitiveness, ascitiesembarkonthe4thIndustrialRevolution. the newurbanagendasforequity, innovation,sustainabilityand explore thepivotalroleofcultureandcreativeindustries in strategies beoptimizedthroughculturaldistricts? Speakers will for sustainableurbanenvironments? HowcanSmartCities infrastructure –providetoolsforimplementingthecurrentagenda in publicspace, measuringimpact,development,flexiblecultural of anchorinstitutions,augmentedreality/virtualreality How dothediscussionsofpasttwodays–role Innovation andSustainability? Cultured andSmart:CulturalDistrictsasCatalystsforUrban Anna Jobson,Director, ChangeManagementatUniv James Doeser, Lead Researcher Joachim Pflieger,DirectorGeneral,FondationFIMINCO, Duncan Pescod,CEO,WestKowloonCulturalDistrictAuthority Moderator: DouglasGau a substantiveresearchexercise toexplorediff seems tolookateveryoneelselongingly!GCDNcommissioned governance andrevenuestreamsareoftenlinked. Everyone and fromthehighlyinformaltoformalized,where and governancemodelsrangefromthepluraltomonolithic, strategic oversight,integrityandvision–canoftenbediffused, Governance ofculturaldistricts–ultimateresponsibilityfor GCDN’s Research discusses itsimplications. and theirproscons.Thissessionlaysouttheresearch PUBLIC SESSION 14:00-15:00|GovernanceofCulturalDistricts:Presentation

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science, children’s learningandnaturalhistory. heritage andhistoryofSharjahtheregion,archaeology, has 16museumscoveringthearts,Islamiccultureandhistory, Arab world.TheSharjahMuseumsAuthority, amemberof GCDN, that, in1998,Unescorecogniseditastheculturalcapitalof Sharjah servedasCapitalofIslamicCulturein2014,butbefore at 10:15.Lightlunchwillbeprovided Transport: BuseswillleaveMetropolitanHotelandVidaDowntown Dinner recommendationstobeprovided Transport willbeprovidedbacktohotelsat17:00 WEDNESDAY |APRIL11

11:00-15:00 |SiteVisitofSharjahMuseums 16:30-17:00 |ClosingRemarks (OPTIONAL) AGENDA between EasternandWestern art. museum, withparticularfocusplaceduponbridgingthegap District. Artworksfromaroundtheworldareshowcasedat architect JeanNouvel,itispartoftheSaadiyatIslandCultural Louvre AbuDhabiopenedinNovember 2017. Designedbyfamed and VidaDowntownat09:00 Transport: BuseswillleaveMetropolitanHotelat09:15 multi-format performingartstheatre. traditional sailingvessel.Itisthecity’s firstpurposebuilt Dubai. The2,000 seatoperahousewasdesignedtoresemblea Dubai Opera,openedin2016,isanewculturaliconDowntown and VidaDowntownat16:50 Transport: BuseswillleaveMetropolitanHotelat16:30 THURSDAY |APRIL12

10:30-14:30 |SiteVisitofLouvre AbuDhabi 17:00-18:30 |SiteVisitofDubaiOperaHouseandDistrict (OPTIONAL)

SPEAKERS Jazz JournalistsAssociationnamedhimHerooftheYear. Pictures andtheNationalMuseumsGalleriesofWales. In2012,the Association ofPerforming ArtsPresenters,TheKaufman Center, Pathé York, andapastboardmember oftheGettyLeadership Institute, the the CabinetOffice. Adrianisaboardmemberof PoetsHouseinNew Museum. HebeganhiscareerasacivilservantintheUKTreasury and London, whereheplannedandmanagedtheestablishmentofDesign AEA, heservedasExecutive DirectorofTheConranFoundationin Director ofJazzatLincolnCenterfrom2007to2012.Priorfounding Global CulturalDistrictsNetwork(2013).AdrianservedasExecutive Adrian isthefounderofAEAConsulting(1990)andco-founder Adrian Ellis President andPrimeMinisteroftheUAE andRulerofDubai. 2012 and2013,byHHSheikhMohammedBinRashid AlMaktoum,Vice the artsandhavebeenawardedPatron oftheArtsawardtwice, in East. AbdelmonemandtheAlserkalfamilyhavelongbeensupportersof is alsoaSupporteroftheCentrePompidou InternationalCircle-Middle Acquisition Committee;andtheGuggenheim's MiddleEasternCircle. He Eastern ArtAcquisitionGroup;theTate's MiddleEastandNorthAfrica including theBritishMuseum's ContemporaryandModernMiddle on numerousboardsofprestigiousartinstitutionsaroundtheworld, Featured inSurfacemagazine's 2016Power 100, Abdelmonemserves (OMA), whichwasfoundedbyPritzker Prize-winnerRem Koolhaas. to becompletedintheUAE bytheOfficeforMetropolitanArchitecture programmes andmuseum-gradeexhibitions.Concreteisthefirstbuilding Abdelmonem Alserkalanddesignedtobeaspaceforalternative Concrete openedinAlserkalAvenue in2017, commissionedby their practicewithinthecontextofDubai. researchers theopportunitytocriticallyreflectonandexperimentwith in October2017. TheResidency isdesignedtogiveartists,curators,and natural extensionoftheprogrammingarm,AlserkalResidency opened international artiststhroughcommissionsandpublicprogrammes.Asa Programming, anot-for-profitinitiativethatsupportslocally-basedand contemporary artgalleriesintheregion.In2015,helaunchedAlserkal Avenue, aculturaldestinationthathousesthemostprominent Abdelmonem BinEisaAlserkalisthedrivingforcebehind Abdelmonem BinEisaAlserkal Angelita Teo Antonia Carver Angelita Teo was appointed as Director of the National Museum of Director of Art Jameel since August 2016, Antonia Carver oversees the Singapore (NMS) in July 2013 and was awarded the Public Administration organisation’s work across the arts, heritage and education. This new role Medal (Bronze) in 2014 for her contributions towards the development of a is designed to lead the expansion of Art Jameel, as the organisation builds vibrant cultural and heritage sector in Singapore. Between 2014 and 2015, new local institutions (Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, and Hayy: Creative she helmed the Museum’s complete revamp of its permanent galleries, Hub, Jeddah), grows its international partnerships, and initiates exhibition, which reopened in September 2015. Since 2012, Angelita has run the educational and publishing projects. Festivals and Precinct Development Division of the National Heritage Board Antonia was previously Director of Art Dubai (from 2010-2016), where she (NHB) and continues to be the festival director of the iconic Singapore led the annual fair’s development into the leading international fair for the Heritage Festival and Singapore Night Festival, which together reach over Middle East and South Asia, and the world’s most global art fair. Under SPEAKERS 2 million visitors annually. In 2016, she undertook the management of the Antonia’s leadership, the fair’s diverse programme expanded to include Museum Roundtable Unit, which aims to build and facilitate a stronger the community school Campus Art Dubai, Art Dubai Projects, Art Dubai museum-going culture in Singapore. Angelita is also the Director of Retail Fellowships and a new sector dedicated to Modern works, in addition and Merchandising under the National Heritage Board. to ongoing contemporary gallery halls, artists’ residencies and commissions, film and video; the Abraaj Group Art Prize; and a raft of educational initiatives. Anna Jobson Based in the UAE since 2001, Antonia has written extensively on Middle Anna Jobson has worked in the arts and cultural sector for over two Eastern art and film for international and regional publications, and also decades and is a specialist in strategy and policy development, and change edited books and journals. In 2004, she joined Bidoun as an editor management. She worked for over a decade at Tate, ultimately as Head and later became the director of the Middle Eastern arts organisation’s of the Director’s Office, and then went to Arts Council England as Director, projects division, co-organising education programmes, artists’ projects, Strategy. An international move in 2012 saw Anna undertaking major film and video series. Antonia played a role in establishing and curating consulting assignments for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, the Dubai International Film Festival as a member of its programming and the Sydney Opera House, before joining the team at MCA in an interim committee (2004-2014), and has also acted as an Arab and Iranian film leadership role. Since moving back to London in 2014, Anna has combined specialist for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Prior to moving to freelance work for a wide range of clients around the world with a change the UAE, Antonia was based in London, UK where she served a number leadership role at the University of the Arts London. of roles, including as an editor at Phaidon Press; in development and projects at the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva); and in publishing Annette Mees at G+B Arts International. Annette Mees is the head of audience labs at the Royal Opera House in London, a new department which will be experimenting with immersive BC Bierman technology opening up new experiences for audiences. She was a Creative BC Biermann is Creative Director and Founder of the groundbreaking Fellow of WIRED magazine and The Space, the guest artistic director of mixed reality company Heavy Projects, a Civic Media Fellow at the USC the Danish Inspiration Lab, and started her career as co-artistic director of Annenberg Innovation Lab, and an Associate Professor of Emerging interactive theatre company Coney. Media at CAVAD. With a PhD in Humanities [Inter-media Analysis] from Annette has worked with diverse partners across sectors, including the Universiteit van Amsterdam, BC’s futurist work investigates the Tate Britain, the United Kingdom Parliament, Ogilvy, British Council, The intersection of emerging technologies and semiotics in ways that address National Theatre of Wales, SJ01 San Jose Biennale, Nesta, and several its impending social, political and ethical impacts. As an internationally UK universities. She enjoys bringing together interdisciplinary teams that recognized digital artist, BC is a pioneer in interactive augmented reality normally do not work together. Annette has worked with a wide range [AR] design and his work has appeared in Geneva, San Francisco, New of specialists including artists, designers, theatre makers, academics, York, Miami, San Diego, St. Louis and Perth; and in publications such politicians, thinkers, futurists, creative technologists, AI experts, film makers, as Fast Company, , Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, IEEE historians, curators, producers, advertising agencies, a magician and Spectrum, Creator’s Project, PC World, C|Net and The Atlantic. A thought an astronaut. leader in the converging technologies space, BC serves on the IEEE Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence Group as a Part of The Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems. As a public speaker, BC advocates that technologists can and should implement these technologies in such a way that promotes the proposition that it is in the common good to act justly and incentivize a collectively beneficial ethics that helps foster a healthy society. Beatrice Pembroke Bjornsterne Christiansen Beatrice Pembroke is Director of the Global Cultural Districts Network, a SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne federation of those who devise and lead cultural districts around the world. Christiansen and Rasmus Nielsen. With a diverse and complex practice, Until recently, she was Director of Creative Economy at the British Council, SUPERFLEX challenges the role of the artist in contemporary society developing cultural programmes in over 40 countries and partnerships and explores the nature of globalisation and systems of power. They are across arts, government, industry and academia. Beatrice has paid known for art works with wit and subversive humour that address serious particular attention to the development of the next generation of cultural social and cultural concerns. SUPERFLEX describe their works as tools leaders; collaborative civic spaces; and new uses of digital technologies in - thereby suggesting multiple areas of application and use. Their work the creative sector. Recent work has included the design of a multi-million spans from the alternative energy production method Supergas (1997) to pound programme to support creative and social enterprise for women the dramatic film work Flooded McDonald’s (2009) and the installation

SPEAKERS in emerging markets; and commissioning a range of research on topics Hospital Equipment (2014), in which a set of hospital equipment is including arts in the public realm, the social impact of creative hubs, the displayed in a gallery before being shipped to a conflict zone and used as global maker movement, gaming and peacetech. She also led the Arts a life-saving device. and Cities work for the British Council. Prior to that, Beatrice worked with Martha Lane Fox, the BBC, Index on Censorship and in publishing. She is a Working in and outside the physical location of the exhibition space, trustee of Auto Italia, on the Ashoka Social Ventures board and co-founder SUPERFLEX has been engaged in major public space projects since of Tech for Good Global. their award-winning urban park Superkilen opened in 2011. SUPERFLEX is currently engaged in a collaboration for a series of plant nurseries in hospitals on the Comoro Islands and a 6-year long commission for a new Bill Bragin Metro station in Paris and are the current Hyundai commission in the Tale Turbine Hall. In their most recent filmworks, SUPERFLEX has addressed Bill Bragin is the founding executive artistic director of The Arts Center at the forensic analysis of fake historical paintings in The Parley (2016), the New York University Abu Dhabi, a “game-changer” (The National) in the outermost border of the EU in the Comoro Islands and its influence on UAE since it began its programs in 2015 on Saadiyat Island. He has been migration in Kwassa Kwassa (2015), and a gigantic bearded vulture living a finalist twice for the Abu Dhabi AmCham’s Falcon Individual Award for in the Alps named “Pablo” in The Return of Pablo (2017). SUPERFLEX’ Excellence. Previously, as director of public programming of New York’s practice is, as the name suggest, not bound to any form or context. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, he attracted hundreds of thousands of audience members to the Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors festivals, and commissioned and premiered numerous Claire Spencer new works in various disciplines. He also set the artistic vision for the Claire Spencer is CEO of Australia’s largest and busiest performing arts David Rubenstein Atrium, which opened during his tenure. Previously, as centre, Arts Centre Melbourne, a role she has held since November Director of Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, he presented thousands of 2014. Since that time, she has steered the organisation through a major performances, and commissioned and helped develop the Tony Award- restructure to better position the organisation for the future and to assist wining musical Passing Strange. Bragin is the co-founder of the not-for- with its key role as a leader in the cultural precinct and a major contributor profit world music festival and service organization globalFEST, which to Victoria’s creative economy. Key projects have included: the launch of celebrated its 15th anniversary edition in New York in January 2018 and the ground-breaking Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA), was the 2018 winner of the William Dawson Award for Programmatic delivered in collaboration with more than 30 Victorian organisations from Excellence and Sustained Achievement in Programming by the Association across the cultural sector; the development of the Australian Music Vault; of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP). As “Acidophilus,” he has Djed and the establishment of the Arts Wellbeing Collective, which promotes internationally as part of GlobeSonic Sound System, and as strong individual wellbeing for those who work in the arts sector. a guest at Boogie Box in Abu Dhabi. Claire is a Member of Chief Executive Women – the pre-eminent organisation representing Australia’s most senior women leaders from the corporate, public service, academic and not-for-profit sectors; she is on the board of The Pinnacle Foundation, established to provide scholarships and mentoring support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex students who are marginalised or disadvantaged; and is also a member of the Federal Government’s Australia–Singapore Arts Group. Claire is married with three children.

SPEAKERS Program atTheUniversityofTexas atAustin. and aBachelorofBusinessAdministrationfromtheHonors Daniel graduatedwithaMasterofArchitecturefromColumbiaUniversity and the$1billionrecapitalizationofAssociatedMaterials. including the$4billionbuyoutandsubsequent$1IPOofPanAmSat and theirportfoliocompaniesoncapitalmarkets andstrategictransactions, worked inCitigroup’s investmentbank, where headvisedfinancialsponsors newspaper thatfocusedonchangesinurbanlife. Daniel previouslyalso of theNewCityReader projectatthe NewMuseum,producingaweekly King ArtCenter, andthegalleriesatColumbiaUniversity;hewasalsoapart appeared intheCenterforArchitecture, NewYork FashionWeek, PS1,Storm Prior tojoiningAEA,Danielworked onexhibitionsandinstallationsthat Saudi Arabia,Kuwait, UnitedArabEmirates,China,Malaysia,andAustralia. United States, UnitedKingdom,Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, processes; hehascompletedassignmentsaroundtheworld,includingin project feasibilitywork,aswellfacilitatingstrategicandculturalplanning developing financialmodelsandbusinessplans,spaceplanningcapital developing newprogrammingandfacilityconceptsforartsorganizations, as aPrincipalinAEAConsulting’s NewYork office. Hisworkincludes and heappliesthoseskillstostrategicbusinessplanningforclients Daniel Payne’s background mergesarchitecture, design,andbusiness, Daniel Payne innovation area:Lab ForTheCity. City’s Mayorwiththespecifictaskofdevelopinggovernment’s civic In 2012shebecameamemberofthetransitionteamcurrentMexico improve thequalityoflifeincitiesthroughtechnologicaldevelopment. platform thatempowersandincubatessocialimpactprojectscan national issues.ShecoordinatedPase Usted’s GeneraMXproject,a of ideasandproposalsforaninclusivediscussionthemostimportant She co-foundedPase Usted,anNGOcommittedtothedissemination Architecture BiennaleandLisbonFirstTriennial 2006/2007. City Government.Sheco-curatedMexicoCity's participationintheVenice for theCity, anewexperimentalarmandcreativethinktankoftheMexico Clora Romo currentlyservesasdirectorofcreativeprojectsatLaboratory Clorinda Romo and Housing(Housing)Director ofHousingfrom2010to2014. Technology) from2008to2010, andPermanent SecretaryforTransport for CommerceandEconomicDevelopment (Communicationsand the EuropeanCommunitiesfrom2006 to2008,Permanent Secretary Special Representative forHongKong EconomicandTrade Affairs to Branch, theTourism Commission, andtheEfficiencyUnit.Hewas former CityandNewTerritories Administration,theformerCivilService the Lands Department,theformerUrbanServices Department,the including theformerHomeAffairs Branch,theformerSecurity Branch, during whichheservedinvariousbranches,bureauxanddepartments, 2015. Heservedforover32yearswiththeHongKong Government in October2014.HewasappointedChiefExecutive Officerin August Duncan Pescod joinedtheWest Kowloon CulturalDistrictAuthority Duncan Pescod the community. appointed aMemberoftheOrderAustralia forservices totheartsand and tourismboardsinHongKong, AsiaandAustralia. In2016,hewas cultural engagement.Douglashasservedonanumberofarts,media has remainedcloselyconnectedandactiveinfosteringAsian/Australian media, tourismandthearts.AresidentofAsiafortwenty-fiveyears,he great ArtsfestivalsinHongKong andwithinternationalexperiencein Douglas cametotheFestivalCentreafterleadingoneofworld’s showcasing ofculturallinksbetweenAustralia andtheAsianregion. two newevents–TheAdelaideGuitarFestivalandOzAsiaa with a‘program-led’approachtoincreaseaudiences.Thishasincluded Director since2006.SincethenhehasrevitalisedtheFestivalCentre Douglas GautierhasbeentheAdelaideFestivalCentreCEOandArtistic Douglas Gautier empowerment andcreativecities. cultural andbusinesspolicy, urbanrenewal,foodmarkets, community Environment Expertandadvises,lecturesteacheswidelyon for theBritishCouncil&UKTrade, isaCABE/Design CouncilBuilt Donald actsasanadvisorinternationallyoncreativeeconomyincluding Chairs BetterBanksideBusinessImprovementDistrict. thousand yearoldcharitythroughaperiodofmajorchange. Healso As ChairoftheworldrenownedBoroughFoodMarket hehasledthe approach toplacemakingthroughaseriesofinnovativepartnerships. cultural andsocialmodelofregenerationbuiltaroundanorganic London BanksideandSouthBankCulturalDistrictcentredona“meshed” At Tate Modernheleadsanongoingurbanrenewalstrategyinthecentral and socialdevelopmentofcitiescommunities. food andmuseumscanplayintheregeneration,placemaking,economic forefront ofexploringandthinkingabouttheroleculture, architecture, for Tate Galleries.Overthelasttwentyfiveyearshisworkhasbeenat Donald isanUrbanist,CuratorandHeadofRegeneration andCommunity Donald Hyslop

SPEAKERS won anumberofawardsintheUnitedStates andBritain. Booker InternationalPrizeforFiction.Herinvestigativejournalismhas Baillie GiffordPrizeforNon-FictionandtheadministratorofMan book prizes,bothforfictionandnon-fiction.Sheisthechairof 2018 another onthefutureofmuseums.Shehasservedjuriesforseveral written twospecialreportsforTheEconomist,oneontheartmarket and Fiammetta Rocco isChiefCultureWriter ofTheEconomist.Shehas Fiametta Rocco socio-cultural dynamicsofartisticinnovation. and methodologicalapproachestoidentifythecreativeterritories the and Italy).Forthisproject,Dr. Raevskikh isdevelopingnewconceptual Capitals ofCulture” infourEuropeancountries(, Sweden, Poland reorganization ofculturalinstitutionsincitiesdesignated“European by theFrenchNationalResearch Agency, whichaimstoanalyzethe She iscurrentlyinvolvedintheANR-Curricularesearchprojectfunded process ofeconomicandmonetaryintegrationintheEuropeanUnion. State UniversityLaw Faculty, whereshestudiedthelegalaspectsof graduated inInternationalPublicLaw fromtheLomonosov Moscow conservatories andtheirterritorialanchors”. Dr. Raevskikh hasalso Genesis andrenewalsofinstitutionalformsculture:astudymusic Studies intheSocialSciences(EHESS).HerPhDthesisisentitled“The France. SheholdsaPhDinsociologyfromtheSchool for Advanced for Scientific Research (CNRS),at the CentreNorbertEliasinMarseille, Elena Raevskikh isaResearch FellowattheFrenchNationalCentre Elena Raevskikh famous ‘Foulardd’Artiste’. ‘Perception’ inCairo. In2013,hecollaboratedwithLouis Vuitton ontheir was namedaGlobalThinker in2016byForeignPolicy forhisproject In 2017, eLSeedwontheUNESCOSharjahPrizeforArabCulture. He and generationstogether. Cape Town, hiscontemporaryapproachaimstobringpeople, cultures of Paris andNewYork, totheFavelasofRiodeJaneiroandslums spaces, galleriesandinstitutionsoneverycontinent.Fromthestreets and theworldweliveintoday. eLSeedhasinstalledhis workinpublic subjects thatseemcontradictory, hisartreactstothereality ofmankind the viewerintoadifferentstateofmind.eLSeedworksprimarilywith and theirmeaningbutalsoonmovement,whichultimatelylures eL Seed’s intricatecalligraphiccompositionscallnotonlyonthewords eL Seed introduction coursefocusingonEuropeandcultureatSciencesPo Paris. Opera andatTeatro Real inMadrid. Since2014,heisinchargeofan director GerardMortiersuccessivelyattheParis Opera,atNewYork City Affairs atSciences Po Paris, heworked from2006to2012withopera from 2012until2017. After aMastersdegreeinEuropeanAffair andPublic Joachim wasManagingDirectoroftheGalerieThaddaeusRopac in Paris the GrandParis, servingemergingartistsand accessibletoallaudiences. district inRomainville, attheheartofurbanandsocialdynamics In 2019, FondationFimincowillopenaleadinginternationalcultural Joachim PfliegerisGeneralDirectorofFondationFimincobasedin Paris. Joachim Pflieger education, publicpolicyandculture. works withclientsintheUKandbeyondatintersectionofhigher examined theevolutionofarchaeologypublicpolicyinEngland.Henow across theculturalsector. Hisbackground isinarchaeologyandhisPhD where heledavarietyofresearchprojectstoinformpolicyandstrategy in London. Until2013hewasaseniorresearcherattheArtsCouncil James Doeserisafreelanceresearcher, writerandconsultantbased James Doeser Award, andIPAF andtheAdvisoryBoard oftheLSEMiddleEastCentre. Paris, theParis-Sorbonne UniversityAbuDhabi,theSheikhZayedBook cultural strategy, theAgaKhanMuseumToronto, InstitutduMondeArabe Dhabi CultureandHeritageAuthority involvedindevelopingtheEmirate’s international boardsoneducationandculturethatincludedtheAbu Mr. Nusseibehhasservedasamemberofseveralnationaland before movingtothePresidentialCourtin1975. helped indevelopingAbuDhabi’s broadcastingandmediaservices in 1969. Healsoworked asabroadcasterandprogramproducer in AbuDhabiasajournalist1967. HebecameDirectorofInformation Court. HegraduatedfromCambridgeUniversity, UKandbeganhiscareer International CooperationandtheCulturalAdvisoratUAE Presidential He worked beforethisasAssistantMinisterofForeignAffairs and Zaki AnwarNusseibehistheMinisterofState intheUAE Government. H.E. ZakiAnwarNusseibeh SPEAKERS Center forArtsResearch (NCAR) atSouthernMethodistUniversity. Advisor. SheiscurrentlytheNasherHaemiseggerFellowofNational Alexander OnassisFoundation,wheresheiscurrentlyservingasSenior of theJeromeL.GreeneFoundation,Trust forGovernorsIsland and and theKingOlavMedalfromNorway. Hopkinsservesontheboards of France, CommanderoftheRoyal OrderofthePolar Star fromSweden arts includingChevalierdeL’Ordre desArts etdesLettres bythe Republic awarded severalhonorarydesignationsforherinternationalworkin the second editionthroughGreenwoodPublishing.Hopkinshasbeen for Arts&CulturalOrganizations,whichiscurrentlyavailableinarevised Hopkins istheauthorofwidelyreadbook,SuccessfulFundraising focused ontheimpactofanchorculturalinstitutions. in Residence attheAndrewW. MellonFoundationwhereherresearch Hall ofFame.” From2015-2017, sheservedastheInauguralSeniorFellow 2014 shewasoneoftenselectedintoitsinaugural“NewYork Business named heroneofthe“50MostPowerful Women inNewYork,” andin Regent fortheNewYork State EducationDepartment.In2013,Crain’s transition committee. From2005-2010 sheservedastheBrooklyn Affairs AdvisoryCommissionandasaparticipantonMayordeBlasio’s Institutions Groupfrom2002-2004,asamemberoftheMayor’s Cultural of theinstitutionsince1979. HopkinsservedasthechairofCultural of Musicfrom1999untilherretirementin2015,andwasanemployee Karen BrooksHopkinsservedasPresidentoftheBrooklynAcademy Karen BrooksHopkins has initiatedtheVRMuseumandMightyMasterskidsprogramme. has beenresponsibleformanagingtheKremerCollectionsince2014and online industry, includingmarketing, implementation,andanalytics. Joel companies allovertheworld.Hehas18-years’ experienceinthe frequent keynote speaker anddeliverssalesmasterclassesforbigtech online companiesinactivating/acceleratingtheirbusinessandisa Google, JoelfoundedKremerConsulting,specialising in helpingoff/ ads productsforEuropeandtrainGoogleEurope’s newhires.After in severalofGoogle’s productteamsacrossEuropeandtheUStolaunch Netherlands salesteams,focusingonretailclients.Hehasalsoworked receiving hisBachelor’s Degree inEconomics,hejoinedGoogleUKand in 1998onlineadvertisingtheBeNeLux andUKmarkets. After Joel Kremerhasanextensivebackground intheonlineworld,starting Joel Kremer from BarnardCollegeandattendedtheYale SchoolofDrama. and wasafoundingboardmemberofArtsforL.A.ShereceivedB.A. member oftheAssociationArtsAdministrationEducators,ARTS Inc., the Los AngelesCoalitionforJobsandtheEconomy. Sheisapastboard Chapter oftheInternationalWomen’s Forum.Sheisalsoamember of of Grantmakers intheArts,andTrusteeship, theSouthernCalifornia served asprogramdirectorfrom2008-2014.Sheservesontheboards she teachesamasterclassincross-sectorworktheartsandwhere she in ArtsManagementprogramatClaremontGraduateUniversitywhere Theatres ofLos Angeles.Laura iscurrentlyaseniorfellow intheMasters Alley Theatre. Duringthattime, sheservedasChairoftheAssociated director oftheVentura ArtsCouncilandproducingdirectoroftheBack 400 artsorganizations.PriortotheArtsCommission,Laura wasexecutive largest countyintheUnitedStates anddirectedthefundingformorethan Commission. Inthatcapacity, Laura managed thecivicartpolicyfor than twodecadesasexecutive directoroftheLos AngelesCountyArts funding strategies.Sherecentlysteppeddownafterservingformore capital projectmasterplanning,artseducation,culturaltourism,and Laura Zucker isanartsleaderwhoseexpertisespansculturalpolicy, Laura Zucker from HiramCollege. New York, andanundergraduatedegreeineconomicspsychology Mellon University. Mr. McMahonholdsanMBAfromtheCityUniversityof is anAdjunctProfessorfortheHeinzSchoolofManagement,Carnegie Associate MemberoftheAfrican AmericanChamberofCommerce. He University, theAmericanLeague ofTheatersandProducers,isan of VisitorstheHeinzSchoolManagementCarnegieMellon First NightandPittsburghDanceCouncil.HeisamemberoftheBoard Centers Consortium,PA EconomyLeague, ThreeRiversArtsFestival, Downtown Partnership, GreaterPittsburghArtsCouncil,Performing Arts is ontheBoardsofHiramCollege, Point Park University, Pittsburgh Kennedy CenterforthePerforming Artsforeightyears.Mr. McMahon Executive VicePresidentandChiefAdministrativeOfficeroftheJohn F. Center, amongseveralotherartsvenues.Previously, Mr. McMahonwas Galleries, SPACE, 707-709Penn GalleriesandtheTrust ArtsEducation Theater, TheaterSquare, includingaCabaretTheater, Wood Street Center forthePerforming Arts,ByhamTheater, HarrisTheater, O’Reilly the Trust’s administrativeofficesandfacilitiesincludingTheBenedum Trust andisresponsibleforexecutive managementandoperationsof Kevin McMahonisthePresidentandCEOofPittsburghCultural Kevin McMahon SPEAKERS University inFranceandParis-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. Management andtaughtArtsCulturalatParis-Dauphine National Museum.HehaschairedseveralyearsthethinktankCulture & traveling exhibitions,includingMasques-BeautédesEspritsattheBahrain of culturaldevelopment.Hemanagedthelaunchmuseum’s first He thenjoinedMuséeduquaiBranlyforitsopeningasDeputyDirector programmes accompanyingthecreationofIslamicArtsdepartment. Director oftheauditoriumwhereheparticipatedincreationnew and theHECbusinessschool.HefirstjoinedMuséedu Louvre asDeputy museums. HegraduatedfromtheInstitutd’EtudesPolitiques de Paris world andspenthisentirecareerinsomeofthemostprestigiousFrench started workingwithseveralrecognisedfiguresoftheFrenchcultural France-Muséums. Awarded asKnightoftheNationalOrderMerit,Rabaté to thisappointment,FrenchnationalRabaté wastheCEOofAgence Manuel Rabaté wasappointedLouvre AbuDhabiDirectorin2016.Prior Manuel Rabaté the SupremeCommitteeforFileofSharjah-Trucial States Portal. heritage preservationintheArabregion.Shealsoservesasamemberof University ofSharjahandICCROM-ATHAR, theregionalcenterforcultural advisory boardsoftheCollegeArts,HumanitiesandSocialSciences- UK culturalleadershipprogramin2010. Shecurrentlyservesonthe University, USA. She is a Clore Fellow having completed the distinguished College andaGraduateDegreeinMuseumStudies fromHarvard Manal holdsaBAinStudio ArtandCommunicationStudies fromHamilton children’s learning. contemporary art,heritage, maritime history, archaeology, scienceand services. ThecurrentmuseumofferingcoversIslamiccultureandhistory, and leadingtheeffortstodeliverinternationalbestpracticeinmuseum projects, fosteringpartnershipswiththeinternationalmuseumcommunity authority isresponsibleforthestrategicdevelopmentoffuturemuseum the overallmanagementof16museumsinemirateSharjah.The Director GeneraloftheSharjahMuseumsAuthority sheisresponsiblefor heritage preservation,museumdevelopmentandculturaldiplomacy. As Manal Ataya isamuseumspecialistwith12years’ experienceincultural Manal Ataya dynamics andimpactsofEuropeanculturalpoliciesoninstitutions. analyses appliedtotheurbanenvironmentidentifysocio-cultural statistical andcartographicmethodologiesinvolvingSmallBig Data Sweden, Poland andItaly).Forthisproject,heisdevelopinginnovative “European CapitalsofCulture” infourEuropeancountries (France, analyze thereorganizationofculturalinstitutionsincitiesdesignated project fundedbytheFrenchNationalResearch Agency, whichaimsto internationally. HeiscurrentlyinvolvedintheANR-Curricularesearch the socialandpoliticaldynamicsofcitiescultureinFrance Fiscal Austerity andUrbanInnovation(FAUI) projects,whereheanalyzed University ofChicagowithTerry NicholsClarkontheScenesand and intheUS”. DrJaffrehasalsoworked asaresearchassistantatthe sociology ofscholarlyArabicmusicalformsdecontextualizedinFrance entitled “TheglobalizationofcultureandthespiritArabicmusic:a Studies intheSocialSciences(EHESS).HedefendedhisPhDthesis France. HeholdsaPhDinsociologyfromtheSchoolfor Advanced Scientific Research (CNRS),atthe CentreNorbertEliasinMarseille, Maxime JaffreisaresearchfellowattheFrenchNationalCenterfor Maxime Jaffré platform CoolHuntingandmore. about LisboninTheGuardian,CondéNast,SundayTimes,theonline a bettercity. VillageUndergroundhasbeenfeaturedrecentlyinarticles was recognisedbyTimeOutasoneofthe30womenthatmake Lisbon for MaximaMagazine’s Women inBusinessawards.Mostrecentlyshe launched (2014)andMarianaherselfwoninthe“Innovation” category “Best NewProjectinTown” intheTimeOutAwards theyearitwas development ofherhomecityLisbon.VillageUndergroundwon and entrepreneurialsectorsinPortugal andcontributingtothecultural Mariana isparticularlydedicatedtopromotingwomeninthemusic and musicPR. campaigns over yearsofworkingacrossEurope, onlarge-scalecreativemarketing success toMariana’s extensivepersonaland professionalnetwork,built brand MadameManagement.VillageUndergroundLisbonowesits where sheworked forC-Squaredandranherowneventsunderthe Underground toLisbonaftercomingacrosstheconceptinLondon, creative peopleandideastogatherevolve. MarianaexportedVillage and double-decker busesinLisbon.Theprojectisameltingpotfor working andeventsspacehousedinacollectionofshippingcontainers Mariana DurateSilvaisthedirectorofVillageUndergroundLisbon,aco- Mariana DuarteSilva SPEAKERS Weapon: TheArtofInfluenceinEveryday LifepublishedinJanuary2017. Seeing Power: ArtandActivisminthe21stCentury(2015)Cultureas distributed byMITPress.Hehaswrittentwobooksofculturalcriticism, Interventionists: ArtintheSocialSphere(2004),withacatalogue where hecompletednumerouslarge-scaleexhibitions,including (2007), amongothers.Previously, heworked asCuratoratMASS MoCA, Campaign (2008),andPaul Chan’s Waiting forGodotinNewOrleans Laura HoptmanandAmyMackie),DemocracyinAmerica:TheNational (2010), JeremyDeller’s ItisWhatit(2009, withNew Museumcurators Paglen’s TheLast Pictures(2012),Paul Ramírez Jonas’s Key totheCity (2016), Kara Walker’s ASubtlety(2014),LivingasForm (2011), Trevor The CreativeTimeSummit(2009–2015),Pedro Reyes’ Doomocracy then, ThompsonhasorganizedsuchmajorCreativeTimeprojectsas Creative TimeasArtisticDirectorwhichhejoinedinJanuary2007. Since Contemporary, heworked attheNewYork-based publicartorganization collecting museuminthecityofPhiladelphia.PrevioustoPhiladelphia contemporary artorganizationintheprocessofcreatinganon- at PhiladelphiaContemporary. PhiladelphiaContemporaryisamobile Nato ThompsonisacuratorandauthorworksasArtisticDirector Nato Thompson Mohammed BinRashid SchoolofGovernmentinDubai. currently specializinginpublicpolicyforsustainabledevelopmentatthe program, UrbanDesignfromtheAmericanUniversityofBeirutandis business school,SmartCitiesfromHarvardGraduateschoolofDesign member ofEllevateInternational.ShetrainedoninnovationatInsead leadership onSustainableDevelopmentGoalsasanExecutive Council and lecturesonsustainableenvironments.MrsBitaradvocateswomen is ajurymemberofmultiplelocalandinternationalsustainabilityawards Innovation Forum,5thGCClocalgovernmentconventionandothers.She Habitat III,World UrbanForum09, First ArabLand Conference, Global Mrs. Bitarisakeynote speaker inglobalandregionalforumssuchas WSP) andTatweer (NowDubaiProperties). practice leaderinurbanplanninganddesignMouchelConsulting(Now Mrs BitaradvisedlocalauthoritiesintheUnitedArabEmiratesandwasa urban extensionsintheMiddleEast,Africa andSouthEastAsiaregions. involved intheplanninganddevelopmentof37largescaledistricts approach forfutureurbandistrictsandcities.Untilnow, shehasbeen Director ofplacemaking.me, athinktankthatconsultsonplace-led Nadine Bitarisathoughtleaderon’Place-led4.0 superscript©and Nadine Bitar The children andlivesinLondon. outstanding servicetotheartsandhumanities.Heismarriedwithfour Honours, andin2011receivedtheBritishAcademyPresident’s medal for Fellow ofBalliolCollegeOxford.Hewasknightedinthe2008New Year College Oxford,amemberofArtsCouncilEnglandandisanHonorary London: aCompanionGuide. HehasbeenaVisitingFellowofAllSouls Orchestra andearlymusic.Mostrecentlyhehasedited published booksonBach,Mozart,SimonRattle, theBBCSymphony the Queen’s JubileeConcertsof2002.Hehaslecturedwidelyand the BBC’s LiveEventsandTVClassicalMusicdepartments,including He oversawtheBBC’s programmingfortheMillennium,andthenran for theaward-winningseasonsFairestIsleandSoundingCentury. appointed Controller, BBCRadio 3fromin1992,andwasresponsible The TimesandObserver,editorofEarlyMusic1983-92.Hewas BBC Promsfrom1996to2007. HewasamusiccriticforTheNewYorker, since 2007. HewasController, BBCRadio 31992-8,andDirectorofthe Sir NicholasKenyon hasbeenManagingDirectoroftheBarbicanCentre Sir NicholasKenyon Doctorate inLiteraturefromChung-angUniversity. Head ofKorea ArtResearch Center. ProfessorLee holdsaBA,MA,and He isalsotheDirectorofSocietyforKorean Historico-Musicology and Changdong 61complex–Seoul’s newestcomprehensiveculturalhub. of theeducationalprogramsandlecturesatnewlyopenedPlatform Arts TheoryatKorea NationalUniversityofArts.Heoverseesthemajority Dong Yeun Lee isaprofessorintheDepartmentofKorean Traditional Prof. DongYeun Lee Technology andtheUniversityofHongKong. Venice. OleBoumantaughtarchitectureattheMassachusettsInstituteof many entriestothearchitectureBiennalesofShenzhen,SãoPaulo and Bouman wasalsoco-curatorofManifesta3(2000),andresponsiblefor Invisible inArchitecture(1994)andofConsequence(2009). of architecturemagazineVolume in2005.HispublicationsincludeThe Biennale Shenzhen(2013-14).Hewasthefounderandeditor-in-chief 2013) andCreativeDirectoroftheUrbanism/ArchitectureBi-City Bouman wasdirectoroftheNetherlandsArchitectureinstitute(until inaugurated on1December2017inShekou, Shenzhen.Previously, for ChinaandthelargestdesignplatforminAsiaPacific. Itwas Ole BoumanisthedirectorofDesignSociety, anewculturalhub Ole Bouman The Cityof SPEAKERS produced severalartistbookstodate. endeavors, artadvisoryprogrammingaswellpublications,having East region.Rahbar andherpartnersalso expanded intonon-commercial an internationallyrecognizedplatformforartistsrelevanttotheMiddle The ThirdLineinDubai–acontemporaryartgalleryfocusedonbuilding her twopartnersClaudiaCelliniandHEOmarGobash,sheco-founded foundation totheideologythatshehadworked towards.In2005,with Rahbar decidedtomoveonestepfurtherandprovideaconcrete showroom intheUnitedArabEmirates,andcuratedseveralexhibitions. of residentcuratoratFiveGreen,knownasthefirstcreativelifestyle generation ofartistsintheregion.In2003,shetookupposition with adeterminedgoaltofosterplatformforthepromotionofrising artists. Shewasinvolvedwithnumerousprivateandpublicartprojects returned toDubaiandworked independentlywithyoungandemerging of eyestorm.com’s NewYork galleryspace. At theendof2001, Rahbar moved backtoNewYork in2001whereshewasinvolvedwiththelaunch she worked atSotheby’s onthecontemporarydecorativeartsale. She the GuggenheimMuseum,NewYork beforemovingtoLondon where New York in2000. Duringschoolandafter graduation,sheworked at graduated withaBacheloroftheArtsfromParsons SchoolsofDesign, Sunny Rahbar isofIranianoriginandwasraisedinDubai,UAE. Rahbar Sunny Rahbar Centre forMusicwiththeCityofLondon andtheNG20MuseuminBerlin. Museum andLouvre Abu Dhabi.Stephen’s currentprojectsincludeThe this listhasincludedtheRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, theGrandEgyptian project developmentfromanearlystage. SincebeingatBuroHappold broad rangeofskillsandexperienceenableshimtoinfluencestrategic design, Stephen’s approachtoprojectsismultidisciplinaryinnature. His With hisbackground inenvironmentalperformanceandintegrated performing andvisualartsprojects. activities intheculturalsectorandhasawealthofexperienceskills partners andbestbuildingdesigners.Heactsasafocalpointfor fantastic portfolioofprojects,Stephen JollyisoneofBuroHappold’s A trulymultidisciplinaryengineerwithadiversebackground anda Stephen Jolly museum asaleaderofpresentationRussianart. Tretyakov Galleryhasgainedanewimpulseofdevelopment,placingthe Military OrderofMalta,2012).UndertheleadershipZelfira, State language inRussia(2012),bytheorderproMeritoMelitensi(Sovereign for meritstheorganizationofyearItaliancultureand of RussianFederation,andtheOrdinedellaStella d’Italiaasacavalier 2014). ZelfirawasawardedhonorarydiplomasbytheMinistryofCulture Palladiana, (Venice, MuseoCorrer, incollaborationwithArkadyIppolitov, Esposizioni, Rome, 2011incollaborationwithMatthewBown),Russia with JohnBowlt,Monte-Carlo;2009),Socialistrealisms,(Palazzo delle 2000), Russia!(New-York –Bilbao, 2005),Surpriseme!(incollaboration of Avant-Garde (–BilbaoVenice –NewYork –London; 1999- projects atleadingmuseumsinRussiaandabroad,including the State Tretyakov Gallery(since2015),curatedofvariousinternational Zelfira Tregulova isan Art Historian,andservesasthegeneraldirectorof Zelfira Tregulova Oxford, UK. an Executive MScinSustainableUrbanDevelopmentattheUniversityof Network andtheJean-Paul NajarFoundation.Vilmaiscurrentlypursuing Vilma servesontheadvisoryboardsofGlobalCulturalDistricts importance insocialdevelopmentandidentitywithintheMENASA region. supporter ofgrowingacreativeeconomy, andastrong advocateforits the developmentofartsandcultureinregion.Shehasbeenavocal Alserkal Residency in2017, affirmingtheorganisation’s commitmentto Concrete in2017. VilmaalsolaunchedAlserkal Programmingin2015,and Avenue’s physicalexpansionin 2015aswelltheinaugurationof been instrumentalinitsevolutionandresponsibleforoverseeingthe Alserkal Avenue in2011andhertimewiththeorganisation,shehas industries acrossNewYork, , London andDubai.Shejoined of Business,Vilmahasspentthelastdecadedevelopingcreative With adegreeinInternationalBusinessfromGrenobleGraduateSchool Vilma Jurkute Amazons GCDN MEMBERS ABOUT GCDN Adelaide Festival Centre – Adelaide, Australia An initiative of AEA Consulting, the GCDN is a membership-based Alserkal Avenue – Dubai, United Arab Emirates network that fosters cooperation and knowledge-sharing among Auckland Live – Auckland, New Zealand those responsible for planning and running districts and clusters that Barangaroo Delivery Authority – Sydney, Australia include a significant cultural element. Brooklyn Cultural District, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Downtown, ABOUT ABOUT Founded in 2013, GCDN provides a context for cultural leaders to Brooklyn Arts Alliance – New York, USA discuss emerging best practice across a range of issues related to Canberra Theatre Centre - Canberra, Australia the successful creation and management of cultural districts and City of Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism (AC+T) – cultural planning around the world. Rhode Island, USA For more information visit gcdn.net City of Sydney – Sydney, Australia + AFFILIATES Cultural and Educational District, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – London, UK Culture Mile (including Barbican and Museum of London) – London, UK ABOUT AEA

GCDN MEMBERS GCDN MEMBERS Dallas Arts District – Dallas, Texas, USA AEA is a global consulting firm setting the standard in strategy and Exhibition Road Cultural Group – London, UK planning for the cultural and creative industries. We are known for Genesis Beijing – Beijing, China our candid and impartial advice that draws on deep knowledge of Grand Center Arts District – St. Louis, Missouri, USA the cultural sector as well as robust research and analytical insight. International Festival of Arts & Ideas – New Haven, Connecticut, USA Since 1991, we have successfully delivered more than 800 Kuwait National Cultural District – Kuwait City, Kuwait assignments, helping clients around the world plan and realize vital LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura – Lugano, Switzerland and sustainable cultural projects. L’Hospitalet Cultural District – Catalonia, Spain With offices in New York and London, AEA offers a talented, Melbourne Arts Precinct – Melbourne, Australia multidisciplinary team of professionals with proven practical MuseumsQuarter Wien – Vienna, Austria experience who deliver personalized solutions to clients in the arts, National Museum of Singapore and Bras Basah Bugis Arts and Heritage cultural, creative and public sectors. We thrive on new challenges District – Singapore and approach problem-solving with curiosity, creativity and integrity. Navy Pier, Inc. – Chicago, Illinois, USA For more information visit: aeaconsulting.com New World Symphony – Miami, Florida, USA Paris La Défense – Paris, France Pittsburgh Cultural District – Pittsburgh, USA Quartier des Spectacles – Montreal, Quebec RAB / BKO Réseau des Arts à Bruxelles / Brussels Kunstenoverleg – Brussels, Belgium The Lowry / Salford Quays – Salford, UK The Sharjah Museums Authority – Sharjah, United Arab Emirates The Temple Bar Company – Dublin, Ireland Theater District Houston – Houston, Texas, USA Times Square Alliance – New York, USA West Kowloon Cultural District – Hong Kong, China William Penn Foundation – Pennsylvania, USA

AFFILIATE MEMBERS Buro Happold – New York, USA Jason Bruges Studio – London, UK ABOUT ALSERKAL AVENUE The 2018 Dubai convening was Established in 2007, Alserkal Avenue is the region’s foremost co-hosted with Alserkal Avenue. contemporary arts and culture neighbourhood, with sixteen We would like to thank all our galleries, including the most prominent galleries in the region, artist studios and over forty creative businesses. Cultivating a vibrant members, participants and speakers

community of visual and performing arts organisations, designers, YOU ABOUT ABOUT and those who supported us for their and artisanal spaces, it has become an essential platform for the generosity and collaboration: development of the creative industries in the United Arab Emirates. Alserkal Programming is a platform for exhibitions, public art commissions, performances, films, talks and workshops that critically THANK Buro Happold and creatively investigate themes pertinent to the region’s arts Dubai Opera House community. As a natural next step, Alserkal Residency opened in fall 2017, and is a platform for artistic experimentation and discursive Sharjah Museums exchange, seeking to support cultural producers as they research themes pertinent to their respective practices, in the city of Dubai. Alserkal Avenue is also home to Concrete, the UAE’s first building to be completed by Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Concrete provides a flexible, multipurpose venue for international arts and culture initiatives ranging from performances, to exhibitions, lectures and various other public events. For more information visit: alserkalavenue.ae