Unlikely seminar 2025

Trained as an institutional economist, Ahlam Benlemselmi has been working for over 20 years on the observation and construction of public policies, and for the past 5 years on the cross-cutting policy of gender equality for the Hauts-de-France Region. Also a visual artist, she has been involved since 2015 with artists' collectives mobilizing reuse at the heart of their creations, within alternative cultural venues such as the CHÊNE in Villejuif (94) or the CRAPO in Vitry-sur-Seine (94). In painting, Ahlam Benlemselmi invests volume in her works, which she brings to touch, for an inclusive art form.

Lena Karson is an artist-researcher and cultural mediator. She uses creative tools and participatory performances to invite groups to rethink encounters through the prism of conflict. She is interested in how systemic dynamics (from artists' collectives to companies) weave our relationships, and how, through creation, we can create "spaces of conflictuality".

She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018, trained as a conflict mediator, then graduated from a master's degree at Eur-Artec (creation as a research activity) in 2024. Her research is at the forefront of her practices, which can take the form of workshops, training courses, theoretical and poetic texts, performances, as well as various methods for facilitating collective discussions.

Céline Du Boys is Senior Lecturer in Public Management and Finance at the Institut de Management Public et Gouvernance Territoriale (IMPGT), Aix-Marseille University, where she co-directs the Master in Public Management / Management of Public Administrations. Her research, rooted in Public Management, focuses on the resilience of local authorities and their financial and budgetary practices in the face of societal challenges.

A DNAP and DNSEP graduate from ENSAPC (École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris Cergy), Anaïs Montevecchi is a tour guide, specialist in the Parisian contemporary art scene, art critic, teacher and cultural entrepreneur, founder of Décodeur d'art and Galeries pour tous.
She designs cultural mediation for art venues, contemporary art fairs and art events, and promotes works of art in private and corporate collections.
She is an art critic, a member of AICA France since 2020 and shortlisted for the Prix de la critique d'art 2023.
She teaches contemporary art at the MBA MIA (international art market) at ICART- Paris.
Today, she is very much focused on the vibrant artistic activities of Greater Paris, and particularly the 93 region, and wishes to use the activist power of art to link it to the territory, but also to accompany the ideological upheavals underway.
Anaïs Montevecchi has been a columnist for the ART CLUB program , rapporteur for the Galeristes 2016 fair and jury member for the YIA Bruxelles prize in 2016.

Sarah Serval is a lecturer at the IMPGT. As a teacher-researcher, her research aims to understand the dynamics of territorial innovation in the face of the challenges of ecological, economic and social transitions. She is interested in the rules of the game that underpin these innovation activities in and through territories. She directs research programs and publishes book chapters and scientific articles on these topics.

Pierre Tectin lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the Reims School of Art and Design (2004) and the Paris School of Fine Arts (2007). Using collages of drawings and objects, he creates new meanings in the style of visual haikus. Interested in the relationship between creation and organization, he is an active member of the Curry Vavart collective and co-founded the Improbable workshops.