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• Making Places Together, Playful City event contributors

  Name	Biography
  Stella Duffy	Stella is an award-winning writer, theatre-maker and co-founder of Fun Palaces campaign.She was awarded an OBE for services to the arts in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2016.
  Ben Payne	Ben is a creative educator and producer with a background in professional theatre, dance, writing, education and literature development. He co-founded Ministry of Stories with Lucy Macnab and Nick Hornby, a fun and accessible writing centre for young people aged eight to 18 in Hoxton, London.
  Neasa Ní Bhriain	Neasa is a Creative Director of A Playful City, a not-for-profit enterprise creating more playful spaces in cities, towns and villages with and for communities. Neasa has been involved in curating events and art installations in public spaces.
  Kevin Murphy	As a consultant, Kevin has experience in creative civic and public engagement, fundraising for and delivering cultural initiatives, cultural advocacy, policy, idea generation and evaluation.

  Kevin Murphy is the event facilitator.

• Making Places Together, Changing Neighbourhoods, Changing Cities event contributors

  Name	Biography
  Signe Jungersted	Signe is CEO of Group NAO, an innovation and strategy company that guides transformation within experience and visitor economies across the world. Signe led tourism development for Copenhagen and set a new course towards city enablement, and people-based growth.
  Jak Spencer	Jak is a partner at Urban Scale Interventions, a creative studio that approaches city-challenges through people-centred design. He has worked on people-centred innovation projects for Google, Facebook, IKEA and Unilever.
  Colin Pidgeon	Colin is an economics and public finance researcher. He's also an artist. He established the Dundonald Art Corridor to improve the local environment and transform ugly public spaces.
  Kevin Murphy	As a consultant, Kevin has experience in creative civic and public engagement, fundraising for and delivering cultural initiatives, cultural advocacy, policy, idea generation and evaluation.

  Kevin Murphy is the event facilitator.

• Making Places Together, City as a Gallery event contributors

  Name	Biography
  Anita Durst	Anita has been a star, a muse, and a patron of the avant-garde arts scene in New York City. She founded Chashama in 1995 to create a place for artists free from financial and subjective constraints. Anita has secured over one million square feet of space in New York City.
  Hayley Ferber	Hayley supports Anita Durst in Chashama as Deputy Director. Hayley graduated from New York University and Rhode Island School of Design. Since graduating, she has been in leadership, curator and arts educator roles at schools and institutions in New York City.
  Gemma Reid	Gemma is a freelance heritage practitioner with a background in curatorial work and education in local museums. Her work focuses on community learning and participation. She has worked to build sustainable cross-sectoral partnerships and innovative approaches to public engagement with heritage.
  Kevin Murphy	As a consultant, Kevin has experience in creative civic and public engagement, fundraising for and delivering cultural initiatives, cultural advocacy, policy, idea generation and evaluation.

  Kevin Murphy is the event facilitator.
• Making Places Together, Repurposing City Spaces, event contributors

  Name	Biography
  Michel Bauwens	Michel is the founder of the P2P Foundation and collaborates with a global group of researchers exploring peer production, governance and property. He is Research Director of CommonsTransition.org, a policy development platform towards a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group.
  Sophie Jerram	Sophie is the co-founder of public art programmes Letting Space and Urban Dream Brokerage in New Zealand. Since 2008 she has helped to repurpose private city spaces for 120 artistic and community uses.
  Rob Hilken	Rob is a visual artist and curator, a founding member of Vault Artist Studios and manager in Northern Ireland for Visual Artists Ireland. Rob has completed a large mural in Wilson's Court Entry in Belfast. He also works to support other artists.
  Kevin Murphy	As a consultant, Kevin has experience in creative civic and public engagement, fundraising for and delivering cultural initiatives, cultural advocacy, policy, idea generation and evaluation.

  Kevin Murphy is the event facilitator.