The teams
Sensitive Environments brings together teams with variable geometry depending on the projects; made up of artists, researchers and teachers, and mediators.
Playwriting and cultural mediation
Elsa POISSONNET-BOYER
A multidisciplinary artist. In his hybrid projects,
She fosters dialogue between the arts, social sciences, poetry, and documentary film to address civic issues with sensitivity. She founded an association called "Milieux Sensibles" (Sensitive Environments) where she organizes artistic workshops and civic debates with other artists and university researchers. She holds a doctorate in sociology from Sciences Po Paris. In dance, she also follows in the footsteps of choreographer Anna Halprin, who uses dance as a means of individual and collective healing and political expression through her "Art Life Process" approach.
Marcos Almeida, known as “Quito”
Artist within the European project
"Anima"
Digital artist, exhibition designer and
Brazilian creative technologist. Throughout his career, he has collaborated and exhibited with contemporary artists such as Ernesto Neto, Tunga, Xavier Veilhan, and Ron Mueck. His work has taken him to Paris, New York, Lisbon, and other cities, where he has developed a multicultural perspective that shapes his practice.
His artistic explorations and master's studies in creative computing have led him to experiment with virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and computer vision technologies.
Morgane LOMBARD
As a photographer and artistic facilitator, she develops a practice at the crossroads of image, writing, and collective intelligence. She uses photography as a sensitive tool for self-exploration and relating to others, accessible to everyone, even those who don't consider themselves artists.
She designs and leads workshops combining photography, self-portraiture, staging, photolanguage, collage, and visual storytelling, often geared towards the creation of collective works. Her approach aims to create safe spaces where everyone can find their voice, refine their perspective, and tell their story through images.
Sacha LOUP BONNEFOND
Music and philosophy
A singer, songwriter, and composer, she initially trained in opera, jazz vocals, and then piano. As the singer and songwriter of the Franco-Tunisian duo Dhamma from 2015 to 2019, she performed at numerous major festivals in France (Les Déferlantes, Live au Campo, etc.) and abroad (Budapest, Tunis, Barcelona, Montreal). In 2019, she wrote music for dance, composing the score for the performance Chawchra, choreographed by Selim Ben Safia. She released her solo EP, La Maison dans ma tête (The House in My Head), in 2021, entirely composed, written, and performed by herself. Influenced by the trip-hop of Portishead, the folk of Joan Baez, and the melancholic electronica of James Blake and CocoRosie, she expresses a dreamlike and deeply intimate soundscape, blending organic and metallic sounds. With a degree in Philosophy, she focuses her thinking on pedagogy and education in critical thinking.
Lisa Anselin
Civic service within the association
Sensitive Environments
Trained as a scenographer, her work focuses on narrative in exhibition scenography and how space and digital devices can convey knowledge and imaginaries.
His thesis focused on the narrative construction of contemporary explorers, incorporating a holographic device designed as a narrative mediator guiding audiences through the exhibition.
Currently engaged in civic service within the Milieux Sensibles association, she is discovering the non-profit sector and the interdisciplinary approaches between arts and social sciences, in connection with artists and researchers. This experience extends questions already present in her career and nourishes her interest in cultural mediation and working with audiences, which she sees as an integral part of the creative process.
She wishes to continue her involvement in exhibition design.
Nicolas Fayette
Sociologist, co-author of the project
and the teaching booklet
Nicolas Fayette, a Doctor of Sociology and Advisor for Popular Education and Youth at the Tarn Departmental Service for Engagement, Youth and Sports, specializes in education and youth. He notably defended a thesis on the schooling of Brazilian elites, "At the School of the Dominant Classes of São Paulo – School Market, Pedagogies and Social Class Relations," and conducted, with Florencia Dansilio, a study for the Philharmonie de Paris on its Socially-Oriented Musical and Orchestral Education Program (DEMOS), "After Démos: A Sociological Survey on the Trajectories of Children from Démos 1." In the Tarn, he works to promote the methods and values of popular education within the youth policies he oversees and also teaches sociology at the Champollion National University Institute in Albi.
Body Awareness Workshop
(ATB) and project coordination
Claire Soustiel
After working for several years at Canal+ in Africa, England, and France, I decided in 2017 to seek something different. I took advantage of a last month in Paris to train in documentary writing and then went to work for six months for a local radio station in Auroville – one of the world's largest communities, located in southern India. There, I discovered the ATB (Awareness Through the Body) method, a form of meditation through play and movement, developed for children and now also taught to adults. Drawing on this awakening method, I have been involved for the past two years in designing and organizing several educational events for 15-35 year olds: a three-day solidarity festival focused on alternative economic models; weekly storytelling workshops; and a year-long coaching program to support 22 young people in developing their own social and sustainable projects.
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