PACESETTERS Real World Laboratories foster capacities to continuously learn from and feedback on real-world issues as a tailor-made laboratory format for the CCIs, fully embedded in local and social contexts. This approach enables the exploration and evaluation of the particular limitations and opportunities of creative communities and networks, and provides an opportunity to experience the prerequisites for systemic change.
Marta Materska-Samek Ph.D. is assistant professor and Ph.D. holder from Jagiellonian University. She has excelled in international project leadership, particularly in film and creative industries.
Joe Lockwood is co-founder of the LAB Genalguacil - International Laboratory of Rural Innovation
Arturo Comas is a visual artist and part of the Real World Lab Genalguacil
John Crumlish is CEO of Galway International Arts Festival
Operations Manager of the Festival
Cultural manager at the Norwid Culture Centre in Kraków
Jadwiga Bryś is Head of promotion at OKN
Emil A. Røyrvik is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).