RESEARCH CHAIR IN THE CREATIVE ECONOMY AND WELL-BEING

Two cultural sector professionals working in regional areas, Mélanie Girard, Executive Director of the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, and Éric Gagnon, Community Development Officer at Culture Côte-Nord, share their career paths and provide insight into on-the-ground realities.

A conversation with Corine Pelluchon, philosopher and professor at Université Gustave Eiffel, exploring the relationship between vulnerability, aesthetic experience, ethics, and the transformation of our relationship to the world in the context of contemporary crises.

This discussion is part of an engaged philosophical perspective, rooted in the ethics of care, attentiveness, and resonance—as described by Hartmut Rosa—as well as in the human–nature connection.

How do practitioners integrate digital creativity into their work? Mélanie-Beby Robert, Director of Training Programs and Pedagogy at the École de cirque de Verdun, shares her experience.